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The body / edited by Sean T. Sweeney and Ian Hodder.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Darwin College lecturesPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002Description: 176 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521782929
  • 9780521782920
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4613 23
LOC classification:
  • HM636 .B58 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Sean T. Sweeney and Ian Hodder -- 1. Building the Body - The Molecular Basis of Development / Richard M. Twyman -- 2. Mapping the Body - the Human Genome Project / Peter N. Goodfellow -- 3. The Bioethics of Reproduction: Have the Problems Changed? / Mary Warnock -- 4. The Violated Body / David Canter -- 5. The Dead Body and Human Rights / Thomas W. Laqueur -- 6. Nude Bodies: Displacing the Boundaries between Art and Pornography / Griselda Pollock -- 7. Body, Cyborgs and the Politics of Incarnation / Bruno Latour -- 8. The Iceman's Body - the 5000 Year Old Glacial Mummy from the Otztal Alps / Konrad Spindler.
Summary: "The Body is a multidisciplinary collection of essays from a number of world-renowned experts on the topic of the body arising from the 14th annual Darwin College lecture series. It deals with our understanding of the modern body from a number of different standpoints. The opening essays deal with topics of developmental biology of the body, the human genome project, and in vitro fertilisation and the possibility of human clones. Other essays explore the subject of bodies and the criminal mind, dead bodies and human rights, science and the politics of incarnation, bodies at the boundaries of pornography and art and the body in archeology."--Publisher description.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.4613 BOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A416566B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.4613 BOD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A416913B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Sean T. Sweeney and Ian Hodder -- 1. Building the Body - The Molecular Basis of Development / Richard M. Twyman -- 2. Mapping the Body - the Human Genome Project / Peter N. Goodfellow -- 3. The Bioethics of Reproduction: Have the Problems Changed? / Mary Warnock -- 4. The Violated Body / David Canter -- 5. The Dead Body and Human Rights / Thomas W. Laqueur -- 6. Nude Bodies: Displacing the Boundaries between Art and Pornography / Griselda Pollock -- 7. Body, Cyborgs and the Politics of Incarnation / Bruno Latour -- 8. The Iceman's Body - the 5000 Year Old Glacial Mummy from the Otztal Alps / Konrad Spindler.

"The Body is a multidisciplinary collection of essays from a number of world-renowned experts on the topic of the body arising from the 14th annual Darwin College lecture series. It deals with our understanding of the modern body from a number of different standpoints. The opening essays deal with topics of developmental biology of the body, the human genome project, and in vitro fertilisation and the possibility of human clones. Other essays explore the subject of bodies and the criminal mind, dead bodies and human rights, science and the politics of incarnation, bodies at the boundaries of pornography and art and the body in archeology."--Publisher description.

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