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OverviewSurface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change—the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals to show how they re-establish the coherence of their bodies, identities, and biographies. In addition to offering important new insights into the care, rehabilitation, and rehabituation of post-trauma patients, Manderson’s work challenges conventional ideas about the nature of embodiment and is an important contribution to medical anthropology, disability studies, and cultural studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lenore MandersonPublisher: Left Coast Press Inc Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.612kg ISBN: 9781611320978ISBN 10: 1611320976 Pages: 295 Publication Date: 01 October 2011 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface; Prologue Perdita’s Story; Chapter 1 The Body as Subject; Chapter 2 Our Cyborg Selves, and Other Modern Tales; Chapter 3 Visible Ruptures: The Art of Living with Lack; Chapter 4 Body Basics: Living with a Stoma; Chapter 5 The Feminine in Question; Chapter 6 Replaceable Parts: The End of Natural Life; Chapter 7 Conclusion: Necessity’s Children;ReviewsLenore Manderson's informants have so much to tell her. The author is not out to soften the often painful directness of their stories, but foregrounds what it is that hurts. In the process, Surface Tensions does not simply describe the world, but also changes it. It interferes in our collective body image. It alters our shared insights in what human bodies are, do and need. --Annemarie Mol, Professor of Anthropology of the Body, University of Amsterdam Author InformationLenore Manderson is an inaugural Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and the Faculty of Arts, at Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia. As a medical anthropologist, public health scholar and social historian of medicine, she has been active in education and research on inequality, social exclusion and marginality, infectious and chronic disease, gender and sexuality, in Australia, Southeast and East Asia, and Africa. She has published over 500 works, including the co-edited volumes Global Health Policy, Local Realities (2000), Social Capital and Social Justice (2009), and Chronic Conditions, Fluid States (2010). She collaborated in and is the subject of the film, Nerve (USA, 2007). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the World Academy of Art and Science, and is Editor of the international journal Medical Anthropology . Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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