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Francisco Ortega

Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture

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This book examines the confusions and contradictions that manifest in prevalent attitudes towards the body, as well as in related bodily practices. The body is simultaneously our reference for the certainties of nature and the locus of a desire for transformation and reinvention. The body is at the same time worshipped and despised; an object of desire and of design. Francisco Ortega analyses how the body has become both a screen for the projection of our ideas and imaginings about ourselves and conversely an object of suspicion, anxiety, and discomfort. Addressing practices of corporeal ascesis (such as bodybuilding and dietetics), medical t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-135-14319-0
  • EAN: 9781135143190
  • Produktnummer: 16948872
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 216 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Francisco Ortega is Associate Professor at the Institute for Social Medicine of the State University of Rio de Janeiro, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine of King's College, London (2012-2013).

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