Our Strange Body : Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Medical Interventions /
Slatman, Jenny
Our Strange Body : Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Medical Interventions / Jenny Slatman. - 1 online resource (192 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface & Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Heavy, Inanimate, and Nauseating Bodies -- 2. Body Boundaries -- 3. Mirror, Please Tell Me Who I Am -- 4. I Exist on the Outside -- 5. My Strange I -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
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The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways - from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics - is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argument: that our own body always entails a strange dimension, a strangeness that enables us to incorporate radical physical changes.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789089646477 9789048523146
10.1515/9789048523146 doi
Human body.
Medicine--Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Social and Political Sciences.
PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body.
Identity, bodily modifications, medical interventions, philosophy.
610.1
Our Strange Body : Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Medical Interventions / Jenny Slatman. - 1 online resource (192 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface & Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Heavy, Inanimate, and Nauseating Bodies -- 2. Body Boundaries -- 3. Mirror, Please Tell Me Who I Am -- 4. I Exist on the Outside -- 5. My Strange I -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways - from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics - is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argument: that our own body always entails a strange dimension, a strangeness that enables us to incorporate radical physical changes.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789089646477 9789048523146
10.1515/9789048523146 doi
Human body.
Medicine--Philosophy.
Philosophy.
Social and Political Sciences.
PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body.
Identity, bodily modifications, medical interventions, philosophy.
610.1