One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal - Hardcover

Dreger, Alice Domurat

 
9780674012943: One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674012941 ISBN 13: 9780674012943
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2004

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Must children born with socially challenging anatomies have their bodies changed because others cannot be expected to change their minds? One of Us views conjoined twinning and other "abnormalities" from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. Anatomy matters, Alice Domurat Dreger tells us, because the senses we possess, the muscles we control, and the resources we require to keep our bodies alive limit and guide what we experience in any given context. Her deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the breadth and depth of that context--the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the "normal." In doing so, the book calls into question assumptions about anatomy and normality, and transforms our understanding of how we are all intricately and inextricably joined.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alice Domurat Dreger is Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies in the Lyman Briggs School of Science at Michigan State University and Faculty Associate at MSU's Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674012941
ISBN 13 
9780674012943
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Anzahl der Seiten
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