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The Body

Part of Darwin College Lectures

Editors:
Sean Sweeney, University of California, San Francisco
Ian Hodder, Stanford University, California

Sean T. Sweeney, Ian Hodder, Richard M. Twyman, Peter N. Goodfellow, Mary Warnock, David Canter, Thomas W. Lacqueur, Griselda Pollock, Bruno Latour, Konrad Spindler

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Date Published: June 2002
availability: Unavailable - out of print March 2012
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521782920

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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.
- Contributions from eminent researchers
- Wide range of topics from arts and humanities to natural sciences
- Written for the general reader
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Product details
- Date Published: June 2002
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521782920
- length: 182 pages
- dimensions: 256 x 185 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.592kg
- contains: 21 b/w illus.
- availability: Unavailable - out of print March 2012
Table of Contents
Introduction Sean T. Sweeney and Ian Hodder
1. Building the body Richard M. Twyman
2. Mapping the body Peter N. Goodfellow
3. The bioethics of reproduction Mary Warnock
4. The violated body David Canter
5. The dead body and human rights Thomas W. Lacqueur
6. Nude bodies Griselda Pollock
7. Body, cyborgs and the politics of incarnation Bruno Latour
8. The Iceman's body Konrad Spindler.
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Editors
Sean Sweeney, University of California, San Francisco
Ian Hodder, Stanford University, California
Contributors
Sean T. Sweeney, Ian Hodder, Richard M. Twyman, Peter N. Goodfellow, Mary Warnock, David Canter, Thomas W. Lacqueur, Griselda Pollock, Bruno Latour, Konrad Spindler