The body in medical thought and practice / edited by Drew Leder.

viii, 258 pages ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographic references and index

A tale of two bodies : the Cartesian corpse and the lived body by Drew Leder (pages [17]-35) -- Why aren't more doctors phenomenologists? by Richard J. Baron (pages [37]-47) -- Foucault's political body in medical praxis by Carole Spitzack (pages [51]-68) -- On the body in medical self-care and holistic medicine by Anthony Weston (pages [69]-84) -- A Confucian perspective on embodiment by Tu Wei-Ming (pages [87]-100) -- Parted bodies, departed souls : the body in ancient medicine and anatomy by Richard M. Zaner (pages [101]-122) -- The body in multiple sclerosis : a patient's perspective by S. Kay Toombs (pages [127]-137) -- Psychosomatics, the lived body, and anthropological medicine : concerning a case of atopic dermatitis by Georg Northoff, Michael Alan Schwartz, and Osborne P. Wiggins (pages [139]-154) -- The body with AIDS : a post-structuralist approach by Julien S. Murphy (pages [155]-176) -- Obesity, objectification, and identity : the encounter with the body as an object in obesity by Donald Moss (pages [177]-196) -- Eating disorders : the feminist challenge to the concept of pathology by Susan Bordo (pages [197]-213) -- Breasted experience : the look and the feeling by Iris Marion Young (pages [215]-230) -- The body of the future by Eric J. Cassell (pages [233-249])

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