Giving the body its due /
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992. |
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| Description: | xi, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1330207 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Charting the Interdisciplinary Course
- 2. The Bodily Nature of the Self or What Descartes Should Have Conceded Princess Elizabeth
- 3. An Eastern Concept of the Body: Yuasa's Body-Scheme
- 4. Minding the Body: The Placebo Effect Unmasked
- 5. The Body as Healer: A Revisioning of Trauma and Anxiety
- 6. Life under Stress: From Management to Mourning
- 7. The Materialization of the Body: A History of Western Medicine, A History in Process
- 8. The Human Body as Historical Matter and Cultural Symptom
- 9. Making the Unknown Known: Art as the Speech of the Body
- 10. The Wider Role of Bodily Sense in Thought and Language
- 11. Body Process in the Evolution of Language
- Contributors