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The Body In Medical Thought And Practice
Drew . Ed(S): Leder
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Description for The Body In Medical Thought And Practice
Hardback. Explores the range of contemporary thought concerning the body and aims to draw out its crucial implications for medicine. The book suggests that many of the problems often found in modern medicine are traceable to medicine's outmoded concept of the body. Editor(s): Leder, Drew. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 559.
In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate. How should we perceive the human body? Is it best understood biologically, experientially, culturally? How do social institutions exercise power over the body and determine norms of health and behavior? The answers arrived at by phenomenologists, social theorists, and feminists have radically challenged our cenventional notions of the body dating back to 17th century Cartesian thought.
This is the first volume to systematically explore the range of contemporary thought concerning the ... Read more
In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate. How should we perceive the human body? Is it best understood biologically, experientially, culturally? How do social institutions exercise power over the body and determine norms of health and behavior? The answers arrived at by phenomenologists, social theorists, and feminists have radically challenged our cenventional notions of the body dating back to 17th century Cartesian thought.
This is the first volume to systematically explore the range of contemporary thought concerning the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Series
Philosophy and Medicine
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792316572
SKU
V9780792316572
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99-15
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