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Bodies of Information initiates the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by encompassing interdisciplinary Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including literary analysis, sociology, criminology, anthropology, osteology and cultural studies, to read a variety of types of artefacts, from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase Global Bioethics to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter’s founding vision from historical perspectives, and asks, how did we get here from then?

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Author:   Chris Mounsey (University of Winchester, UK) ,  Stan Booth (University of Winchester, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367360481

ISBN 10:   0367360489
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   08 November 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Bodies of Information Part I: The Unknown Body 1. Dis/ability in Roman Dorset: An Integrated Osteobiography Approach 2. The Imagined Emaciated Body in Late-Medieval English Memorial Sculpture 3. Hideous and Mutilated: The Wedded Body in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales 4: Prosthetic Pomp: The Significance of Samuel Foote’s Amputation to His Performance in The Nabob Part II: The General Body 5. Violence and the Marked Body: (In)Visible Trauma in London During the Long Eighteenth Century 6. Teacher of Right: Rousseau at the Limits of the State 7. A ""Profession"" of Apology: Criminal Doctors or Medical Negligence and the Fuzzy Boundaries of Justice 8. Precarious Health: Thomas Beddoes’s Pneumatic Therapy Part III: The Particular Body 9. The Spector of the Singular Body in Frankenstein: Difference and Reparation 10. The Infinite Variety of La Casati 11. ""The Vagabond Venus"": Cesare Lombroso Colonizes Tattoos 12. A Question of Objectivity?: Reading Nicki Minaj’s VariAble Body"

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Chris Mounsey is Professor of eighteenth-century cultural studies at the University of Winchester. Stan Booth is an associate lecturer at the University of Winchester.

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