Our Strange Body : : Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Medical Interventions / / Jenny Slatman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Slatman, Jenny,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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