The body in medical culture / 
edited by Elizabeth Klaver. 
 - Albany, NY :  SUNY Press,  c2009. 
 - ix, 255 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Home bodies : matters of weight in Renaissance women's medical manuals / Hillary M. Nunn -- Remapping maternity in the courtroom : female defenses and medical witnesses in eighteenth-century infanticide proceedings / Sheena Sommers -- "Surely he cannot be flesh and blood" : the early Victorian anatomical museum and the blackface minstrel / Stephen Johnson -- The "disabled imagination" and the masculine metaphor in the works of Leonard Kriegel / Hayley Mitchell Haugen -- Of genes, mutations, and desires in Franz Kafka's The metamorphosis and Moacyr Scliar'sThe centaur in the garden / Catalina Florina Florescu -- The post-biological body : horror, nostalgia and the Visible Human Project / Natalia Lizama -- Endography : a physician's dream of omniscience / Catherine Belling -- Designer vaginas / Alexa A. Priddy and Jennifer L. Croissant -- (Trans) gendered fabrications and the surgery debates / Sally Hines -- On slanderous words and bodies out-of-control : hospital humor and the medical carnivalesque / Lisa Gabbert and Antonio Salud II -- Dr. Jarvik and other baby boomers : (still) performing the able body / Linda Seidel. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781438425856 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1438425856 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781438425863 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1438425864 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008024284 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA940561  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101475581  DNLM 015118065  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social medicine.<br/>Human body--Social aspects.<br/>Culture.<br/>Medicine--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA418  / .B5795 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.1 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2009 F-404 WZ 40  / B668 2009