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This is the first volume to systematically explore the range of contemporary thought concerning the body and draw out its crucial implications for medicine. Its authors suggest that many of the problems often found in modern medicine -- dehumanized treatment, overspecialization, neglect of the mind's healing resources -- are directly traceable to medicine's outmoded concepts of the body. New and exciting alternatives are proposed by some of the foremost physicians and philosophers working in the medical humanities today.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
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Theoretical Overviews
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Phenomenological Critiques
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Sociopolitical Critiques
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Cultural and Historical Perspectives
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Regional Studies
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Women’s Bodies: Body Image, Size, and Objectification
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The Body of the Future
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Book Title: The Body in Medical Thought and Practice
Editors: Drew Leder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7924-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1657-2Published: 31 August 1992
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4140-1Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-7924-7Published: 29 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 260
Topics: Philosophy of Medicine, Phenomenology, Modern Philosophy, History of Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics