A cultural history of the human body
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- [general editors, Linda Kalof and William Bynum].
- Language
- English.
- Edition
- English ed.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2010.
- Physical description
- 6 v. : ill., ports.
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- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction William Bynum (University College London, UK) 1 Birth and Death in Early Modern Europe Lianne McTavish (University of Alberta, CANADA) 2 Why Me? Why Now? How? The Body in Health and Disease Margaret Healy (University of Sussex, UK) 3 Sexuality: Of Man, Woman, and Beastly Business Katherine Crawford (Vanderbilt University, USA) 4 The Body in /as Text: Medical Knowledge and Technologies in the Renaissance Susan Broomhall (University of Western Australia, AUSTRALIA) 5 The Common Body: Renaissance Popular Beliefs Karen Raber (University of Mississippi, USA) 6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal Mary Rogers (independent scholar) 7 The Marked Body as Otherness in Renaissance Italian Culture Patrizia Bettella (University of Alberta, CANADA) 8 The Marked Body: The Witches, Lady Macbeth, and the Relics Diane Purkiss (University of Oxford, UK) 9 Fashioning Civil Bodies and "Others": Cultural Representations Margaret Healy (University of Sussex, UK) 10 Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies Margaret L. King (City University of New York, USA) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index.
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- Introduction Daniel H. Garrison (Northwestern University, USA) 1 "The End is to the Beginning as the Beginning is to the End": Birth, Death, and the Classical Body Valerie M. Hope (Open University, UK) 2 Health and Disease Patrick MacFarlane (Providence College, Rhode Island, USA) 3 Sex Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona in Tucson, USA) 4 Medical Knowledge and Technology Brooke Holmes (Princeton University, USA) 5 Popular Beliefs about the Human Body in Antiquity Page duBois (University of California, San Diego, USA) 6 Reflections on Erotic Desire in Archaic and Classical Greece Froma I. Zeitlin (Princeton University, USA) 7 Marked Bodies: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability, and Disease Brooke Holmes (Princeton University, USA) 8 Marked Bodies: Divine, Human, and Bestial Marguerite Johnson (The University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA) 9 The Body of a Hero: Images of Herakles and Their Political Use in Antiquity Amalia Avramidou (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, BELGIUM) 10 The Self from Homer to Charlemagne Marc Mastrangelo (Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index.
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- Introduction Monica H. Green (Arizona State University, USA) 1 Birth and Death Katharine Park (Harvard University, USA) 2 Health, Disease, and the Medieval Body Ann G. Carmichael (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA) 3 The Sexual Body Ruth Mazo Karras (University of Minnesota, USA) and Jacqueline Murray (University of Guelph, CANADA) 4 The Body Inferred: Knowing the Body through the Dissection of Texts Fernando Salm n (University of Cantabria, SPAIN) 5 Bodies and the Supernatural: Humans, Demons, and Angels Anke Bernau (University of Manchester, UK) 6 Beautiful Bodies Montserrat Cabr (Universidad de Cantabria, SPAIN) 7 Bodily Essences: Bodies as Categories of Difference Monica H. Green (Arizona State University, USA) 8 The Diversity of Human Kind Monica H. Green (Arizona State University, USA) 9 Cultural Representations of the Body Samantha Riches (Lancaster University, UK) and Bettina Bildhauer (University of St Andrews, UK) 10 Self and Society Sylvia Huot (University of Cambridge, UK) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index.
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- Introduction: Bodies in History-The Task of the Historian Ivan Crozier (University of Edinburgh, UK) 1 Death and Birth Malcolm Nicolson (University of Glasgow, UK) 2 Performing the Western Sexual Body after 1920 Ivan Crozier (University of Edinburgh, UK) 3 The Technological Fix and the Modern Body: Surgery as a Paradigmatic Case Thomas Schlich (McGill University, Canada) 4 Diseased Bodies in the Modern World Anna Crozier (University of Exeter, UK) 5 Popular Beliefs Dan O'Connor (Johns Hopkins University, USA) 6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal Christopher E. Forth (University of Kansas, USA) 7 Re-markable Bodies Anna Cole (University of London, UK) and Anna Haebich (Griffith University, Australia) 8 Body Marks (Bestial/Divine/Natural): An Essay into the Social and Biotechnological Imaginaries, 1920-2005 and Bodies to Come Michael M. J. Fischer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) 9 Dissolution, Reconstruction, and Reaction in Visual Art, 1920 to the Present Ana Carden-Coyne (University of Manchester, UK) 10 The History of the Body: Self and Society, 1920-2000 D. M. Vyleta (Independent scholar, USA) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index.
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- Introduction: Empires in Bodies-- Bodies in Empires Michael Sappol (National Library of Medicine, USA) 1 Birth and Death under the Sign of Thomas Malthus Thomas Laqueur (University of California, USA) and Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna College, USA) 2 Medical Perspectives on Health and Disease Michael Worboys (University of Manchester, UK) 3 Othering Sexual Perversity: England, Empire, Race, and Sexual Science Richard C. Sha (American University, USA) 4 Medical Science, Technology, and the Body Chandak Sengoopta (University of London, UK) 5 Popular Beliefs and the Body: "A Nation of Good Animals" Pamela K. Gilbert (University of Florida, USA) 6 The Normal, the Ideal, and the Beautiful: Perfect Bodies during the Age of Empire Michael Hau (Monash University, Australia) 7 Empire, Boundaries, and Bodies: Colonial Tattooing Practices Clare Anderson (University of Warwick, UK) 8 Smallpox, Vaccination, and the Marked Body Nadja Durbach (University of Utah, USA) 9 Picturing Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Stephen P. Rice (Ramapo College, USA) 10 From Mimetic Machines to Digital Organisms: The Transformation of the Human Motor Anson Rabinbach (Princeton University, USA) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index.
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- Introduction: Enlightenment Bodies Carole Reeves (University College London, UK) 1 The Body in Birth and Death Lisa Forman Cody (Claremont McKenna College, USA) 2 Pliable Bodies: The Moral Biology of Health and Disease Kevin Siena (Trent University, Canada) 3 Sexual Knowledge: Panspermist Jokes, Reproductive Technologies, and Virgin Births George Rousseau (Oxford University, UK) 4 Medical Knowledge: The Adventures of Mr. Machine, with Morals Jessica Riskin (Stanford University, USA) 5 Popular Beliefs about the Dead Body Ruth Richardson (University of Herfordshire, UK) 6 The Body Beautiful David M. Turner (Swansea University, UK) 7 Marked Bodies and Social Meanings Laura Gowing (King's College London, UK) 8 The Puzzle of the Pox-Marked Body Susan Staves (Brandeis University, USA) 9 Cultural Representations: Rogue Literature and the Reality of the Begging Body Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire, UK) 10 Self and Society: Attitudes toward Incest in Popular Ballads Ruth Perry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index.
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- Volume 1: A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity (750 BCE - 1000 CE) Edited by Daniel Garrison, Northwestern University Volume 2: A Cultural History of the Human Body in The Medieval Age (500 - 1500) Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University Volume 3: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance (1400 - 1650) Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University and William Bynum, University College London Volume 4: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (1650 - 1800) Edited by Carole Reeves, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. Volume 5: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire (1800 - 1920) Edited by Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine in Washington, DC, and Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College of New Jersey Volume 6: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Modern Age (1900-21st Century) Edited by Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh.
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- Publisher's Summary
- A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural object. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: 1. Birth and Death 2. Health and Disease 3. Sex & Sexuality 4. Medical Knowledge and Technology 5. Popular Beliefs 6. Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal 7. Marked Bodies I: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability and Disease 8. Marked Bodies II: the Bestial, the Divine and the Natural 9. Cultural Representations of the Body 10. The Self and Society This means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on the human body through history.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)9781847887887 20160605 - A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural object. Volume 1: A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity (1300 BCE - 500 CE) Edited by Daniel Garrison, Northwestern University. Volume 2: A Cultural History of the Human Body in The Medieval Age (500 - 1500) Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University Volume 3: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance (1400 - 1650) Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University and William Bynum, University College London. Volume 4: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (1600 - 1800) Edited by Carole Reeves, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. Volume 5: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire (1800 - 1920) Edited by Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine in Washington, DC, and Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College of New Jersey. Volume 6: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Modern Age (1900-21st Century) Edited by Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh, and Chiara Beccalossi, University of Queensland. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: 1. Birth and Death 2. Health and Disease 3. Sex & Sexuality 4. Medical Knowledge and Technology 5. Popular Beliefs 6. Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal 7. Marked Bodies I: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability and Disease 8. Marked Bodies II: the Bestial, the Divine and the Natural 9. Cultural Representations of the Body 10. The Self and Society This means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on the human body through history.
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- 2010
- ISBN
- 9781845204952
- 1845204956
- 9781847887887 (v. 1)
- 1847887880 (v. 1)
- 9781847887894 (v. 2)
- 1847887899 (v. 2)
- 9781847887900 (v. 3)
- 1847887902 (v. 3)
- 9781847887917 (v. 4)
- 1847887910 (v. 4)
- 9781847887924 (v. 5)
- 1847887929 (v. 5)
- 9781847887931 (v. 6)
- 1847887937 (v. 6)
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