Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of the Biological Body - Softcover

 
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Synopsis

Vital Signs vigorously brings feminist philosophical and postmodern thinking to bear on the topics of biomedicine and the body, examining issues such as meditating bodies; sexuality and the clinical encounter; the heart as metaphor; spatiality of bodies and sexual abuse; postcolonial bodies and the clinic; biopsychiatry; tanning; disabilities; and hysteria.

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About the Author

Janet Price is at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

Margrit Shildrick is a Research Fellow at the University of Staffordshire and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, and the Insititute of Womenís Studies, Lancaster.

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ISBN 10:  0748609636 ISBN 13:  9780748609635
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 1998
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