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One of Us : Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal / Alice Domurat Dreger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2005]Copyright date: 2005Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674258082
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.196/043 22
LOC classification:
  • RG626 .D74 2004
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 The Limits of Individuality -- 2 Split Decisions -- 3 What Sacrifice -- 4 Freeing the Irish Giant -- 5 The Future of Anatomy -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index
Summary: Must children born with socially challenging anatomies have their bodies changed because others cannot be expected to change their minds? One of Us views conjoined twinning and other “abnormalities” from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics.Anatomy matters, Alice Domurat Dreger tells us, because the senses we possess, the muscles we control, and the resources we require to keep our bodies alive limit and guide what we experience in any given context. Her deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the breadth and depth of that context—the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the “normal.” In doing so, the book calls into question assumptions about anatomy and normality, and transforms our understanding of how we are all intricately and inextricably joined.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674258082

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 The Limits of Individuality -- 2 Split Decisions -- 3 What Sacrifice -- 4 Freeing the Irish Giant -- 5 The Future of Anatomy -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Credits -- Index

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Must children born with socially challenging anatomies have their bodies changed because others cannot be expected to change their minds? One of Us views conjoined twinning and other “abnormalities” from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics.Anatomy matters, Alice Domurat Dreger tells us, because the senses we possess, the muscles we control, and the resources we require to keep our bodies alive limit and guide what we experience in any given context. Her deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the breadth and depth of that context—the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the “normal.” In doing so, the book calls into question assumptions about anatomy and normality, and transforms our understanding of how we are all intricately and inextricably joined.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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