The body
The Body is a multidisciplinary collection of essays from a number of world-renowned experts on the topic of the body arising from the 14th annual Darwin College lecture series. It deals with our understanding of the modern body from a number of different standpoints. The opening essays deal with topics of developmental biology of the body, the human genome project, and in vitro fertilisation and the possibility of human clones. Other essays explore the subject of bodies and the criminal mind, dead bodies and human rights, science and the politics of incarnation, bodies at the boundaries of pornography and art and the body in archeology
176 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
9780521782920, 0521782929
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Building the body
the molecular basis of development / Richard M. Twyman
Mapping the body : the human genome project / Peter N. Goodfellow
The bioethics of reproduction : have the problems changed? / Mary Warnock
The violated body / David Canter
The dead body and human rights / Thomas W. Laqueur
Nude bodies : displacing the boundaries between art and pornography / Griselda Pollock
Body, cyborgs and the politics of incarnation / Bruno Latour
The Iceman's body
the 5000 year old glacial mummy from the Ötztal Alps / Konrad Spindler