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

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9780674018259: One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0674018257 ISBN 13: 9780674018259
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Must children born with socially challenging anatomies have their bodies changed because others cannot be expected to change their minds? <i>One of Us</i> 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 an American historian of medicine and science and an award-winning writer.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674018257
ISBN 13 
9780674018259
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Harvard University Press
https://www.hup.harvard.edu

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