Our Strange Body : : Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Medical Interventions / / Jenny Slatman.
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 ques...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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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