Full Description
Leading international authors from across the social science disciplines explore the contemporary re-theorizing of bodies as known, knowing and unknowing. Presents cutting-edge research on ageing, disability, and biomedicine, together with original philosophical debates about the body and embodimentOffers exciting and creative approaches to researching disembodiment and to the practice, organization, and conduct of careOriginal exploration of contemporary theory and social philosophy on the bodyIncludes innovative and creative approaches to care and primary research in medicine, genetics, disability, and ageing studies
Contents
1. IntroductionUniversity). Section I: Opening up the Body.2. On the art of life: a vitalist reading of medical humanities: Monica Greco (Goldsmiths, University of London).3. Unsettling bodies: Frida Khalo's portraits and in/dividuality: Joanna Latimer (Cardiff University).4. Bodily chiasms: Hugo Letiche (University for Humanistics Utrecht).Section II: Moving Worlds.5. The body in time: knowing bodies and the `interruption' of narrative: Rolland Munro and Olga Belova.6. Telling silences: unspeakable trauma and the unremarkable practices of everyday life: Megan Warin (Durham University) and Simone Dennis (Australian National University).7. Knowing body, knowing other: cultural materials and intensive care: Paul White (Cardiff University).Section III: Bodies & Technology.8. Actor-networks of dementia: Michael Schillmeier (Ludwig-Maximilians University).9. Washing and assessing: multiple diagnosis and hidden talents: Bernd Kraeftner (University for Applied Arts, Vienna) and Judith Kroell (University of Vienna).10. Embodying autonomy in a Home Telecare service: Daniel Lopez (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) and Miquel Domenech (Autonoma University, Barcelona).Section IV: Absences & Presences.11. On psychology and embodiment: some methodological experiments: Steven D. Brown (University of Leicester) Paula Reavey (London South Bank University) John Cromby (Loughborough University) David Harper (University of East London) and Katherine Johnson (University of Brighton).12. Bodily knowing as uncannily canny: clinical and ethical significance: Fiona K. O'Neill (Lancaster University).13. Beyond caring? Discounting the differently known body: Trudy Rudge (University of Sydney).14. Embodying loss and the puzzle of existence: Floris Tomasini (University of Central Lancashire).Index.
