This Mortal Coil : The Human Body in History and Culture, Hardcover by Albert...

Description: This Mortal Coil : The Human Body in History and Culture, Hardcover by Alberti, Fay Bound, ISBN 0199793395, ISBN-13 9780199793396, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Hamlet's "mortal coil" - which eventually and inevitably we "shuffle off" when we enter the sleep of death, as he puts it - has never been static. Indeed how the human body and its component parts have been understood, individually and collectively, hasshifted across time, shaped by culture, religion, and technology. In this probing and provocative new book, Fay Bound Alberti uses the global histories of medicine, pathology, and emotions to explore these changing notions. Each chapter uses a different focus - bones, skin, sexual organs, spine, tongue, heart - revealing how each body part connects to a peculiarly Western notion of expertise, one which appropriates one element from the others and ignores their interconnection. The themes examined in ThisMortal Coil - the nature of identity, the relationship between the brain and the heart, and the gendering of our physical and emotional selves - are enduring ones, but perceptions of the "perfect body" or "perfect health" evolve constantly. Moving between the surface and what lies beneath, Alberti provides a rich and fascinating accounting of each part, shedding light on the role scientific developments - from medical care to plastic surgery to cloning - plays in how we look at ourselves. Written with insight and narrative verve, Alberti's provocativ reveals how the mortal coil can be unwound, and looked at as if for the first time"--

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Book Title: This Mortal Coil : the Human Body in History and Culture

Number of Pages: 320 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Item Height: 0.9 in

Publication Year: 2016

Topic: Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), General, Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology

Genre: Science

Item Weight: 17.6 Oz

Item Length: 9.3 in

Author: Fay Bound Alberti

Item Width: 6.5 in

Format: Hardcover