Teston takes new materialist theory to the scene of medical diagnosis, clinical trials, and deliberation, grappling with unruly bodies as emergent and medical practices as indeterminate and contingent. A fascinating, potent study that should be required reading for transcorporeal humans, who find ourselves dwelling within not isolated from flux.
Stacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman ... Read moreTimes Teston takes new materialist theory to the scene of medical diagnosis, clinical trials, and deliberation, grappling with unruly bodies as emergent and medical practices as indeterminate and contingent. A fascinating, potent study that should be required reading for transcorporeal humans, who find ourselves dwelling within
not isolated from
flux.
Stacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times In one of the most compelling accounts to date, Teston's Bodies in Flux demonstrates quite strikingly how evidence is produced as much as it is analyzed, and that rather than avoid uncertainty, we can and should embrace the contingency of bodily materialities. The book is a must-read for humanities scholars, biomedical researchers, physicians, and patients looking for alternative ways of thinking about and, indeed, actively practicing the uncertainty and potentiality of embodied being.
Kelly E. Happe, author of The Material Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project In one of the most compelling accounts to date, Teston s Bodies in Flux demonstrates quite strikingly how evidence is produced as much as it is analyzed, and that rather than avoid uncertainty, we can and should embrace the contingency of bodily materialities. The book is a must-read for humanities scholars, biomedical researchers, physicians, and patients looking for alternative ways of thinking about and, indeed, actively practicing the uncertainty and potentiality of embodied being.
Kelly E. Happe, author of TheMaterial Gene: Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project Show Less