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Presence in the Flesh : The Body in Medicine
Presence in the Flesh The Body in Medicine
Author: Katherine 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.
ISBN-13: 9780674701816
ISBN-10: 067470181X
Publication Date: 6/15/1997
Pages: 199
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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