TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dreger,Alice Domurat
TI  - One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal 
SN  - 9780674258082
AV  - RG626 .D74 2004
U1  - 362.196/043 22
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Abnormalities, Human
KW  - Conjoined twins
KW  - SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674258082?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674258082
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674258082/original
ER  -