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Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine Katharine Young
Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine
Katharine Young
Disembodiment--rendering the body an object and the self bodyless--is the foundational gesture of medicine. How, then, does medical practice acknowledge the presence of the person in the objectified body? Katharine Young considers in detail the "choreography" such a maneuver requires.
224 pages, 3 halftones, 1 table, notes, references, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 15, 1997 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674701816 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 22 mm · 517 g |
| Language | English |