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The distressed body : rethinking illness, imprisonment, and healing / Drew Leder.

By: Leder, Drew [author.].
Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, ©2016Description: 287 pages cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226396101 (paperback : alkaline paper).Subject(s): Human body (Philosophy) | Medicine -- Philosophy | Imprisonment -- Philosophy | Factory farms -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Illness and treatment : phenomenological investigations. Rethinking illness : Philoctetes' exile ; Rethinking pain : the paradoxical problem ; Rethinking touch : how then does it heal? ; Rethinking pills : fantasies, realities, possibilities ; Rethinking clinical practice : toward a more materialistic medicine -- Medicine and bioethics : hermeneutical reflections. Rethinking diagnosis : the many texts of medicine ; Rethinking bioethics : questioning our answers, and our questions ; Rethinking organ transplants : whose body, what body? -- Discarded and recovered bodies : animals and prisoners. Rethinking factory farms : Old McDonald's had a what? ; Rethinking imprisonment : the life-world of the incarcerated ; Rethinking prisons : the enlightened (and endarkened) prison ; Rethinking prisoners and animals : "they're animals" and their animals ; Rethinking humans and/as animals : the art of shape-shifting.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Illness and treatment : phenomenological investigations. Rethinking illness : Philoctetes' exile ; Rethinking pain : the paradoxical problem ; Rethinking touch : how then does it heal? ; Rethinking pills : fantasies, realities, possibilities ; Rethinking clinical practice : toward a more materialistic medicine -- Medicine and bioethics : hermeneutical reflections. Rethinking diagnosis : the many texts of medicine ; Rethinking bioethics : questioning our answers, and our questions ; Rethinking organ transplants : whose body, what body? -- Discarded and recovered bodies : animals and prisoners. Rethinking factory farms : Old McDonald's had a what? ; Rethinking imprisonment : the life-world of the incarcerated ; Rethinking prisons : the enlightened (and endarkened) prison ; Rethinking prisoners and animals : "they're animals" and their animals ; Rethinking humans and/as animals : the art of shape-shifting.

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