TY  - BOOK
AU  - Slatman,Jenny
TI  - Our Strange Body: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Medical Interventions 
SN  - 9789089646477
U1  - 610.1 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Human body
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Social and Political Sciences
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Identity, bodily modifications, medical interventions, philosophy
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048523146?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048523146
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048523146/original
ER  -