On monsters : an unnatural history of our worst fears / / Stephen T. Asma.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 351 p. :; ill. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Asma, Stephen T. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a On monsters |h [electronic resource] : |b an unnatural history of our worst fears / |c Stephen T. Asma. |
| 260 | |a Oxford ; |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 351 p. : |b ill. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-333) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Extraordinary beings -- Ancient monsters. Alexander fights monsters in India ; Monsters are nature's playthings ; Hermaphrodites and man-headed oxen ; Monstrous desire -- Medieval monsters : messages from God. Biblical monsters ; Do monsters have souls? ; The monster killer ; Possessing demons and witches -- Scientific monsters : the book of nature is riddled with typos. Natural history, freaks, and nondescripts ; The medicalization of monsters ; Darwin's mutants -- Inner monsters : the psychological aspects. The art of human vulnerability : angst and horror ; Criminal monsters : psychopathology, aggression, and the malignant heart ; Torturers, terrorists, and zombies : the products of monstrous societies ; Future monsters : robots, mutants, and posthuman cyborgs. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Monsters. | |
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