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The Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment and Healing

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: The University of Chicago Press 2016 ChicagoDescription: 287pISBN:
  • 9780226396101
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128.6 LED
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Part I: Illness and Treatment: Phenomenological Investigations
1. Rethinking Illness: Philoctetes' Exile
2. Rethinking Pain: The Paradoxical Problem
3. Rethinking Touch: How Then Does it Heal?
4. Rethinking Pills: Fantasies, Realities, Possibilities
5. Rethinking Clinical Practice: Toward A More Materialistic Medicine

Part II: Medicine and Bioethics: Hermeneutical Reflections
6. Rethinking diagnosis: the many texts of medicine
7. Rethinking bioethics: questioning our answers and our questions
8. Rethinking organ transplants: whose body, what body?

Part III: Discarded And Recovered Bodies: Animals and Prisoners
9. Rethinking Factory Farms: Old Mcdonald's had a What?
10. Rethinking Imprisonment: The Life-World of The Incarcerated
11. Rethinking Prisons: The Enlightened (And Endarkened) Prison
12. Rethinking Prisoners And Animals: "They're Animals" and Their Animals
13. Rethinking Humans And/As Animals: The Art of Shape-Shifting

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