The Body in Medical Thought and Practice Book

Introduction. Section 1: Theoretical Overviews. 1. Phenomenological Critiques. A Tale of Two Bodies: The Cartesian Corpse and the Lived Body; D. Leder. Why aren't More Doctors Phenomenologists? R.J. Baron. 2. Sociopolitical Critiques. Foucault's Political Body in Medical Praxis; C. Spitzack. On the Body in Medical Self-Care and Holistic Medicine; A. Weston. 3. Cultural and Historical Perspectives. A Confucian Perspective on Embodiment; Tu Wei-Ming. Parted Bodies, Departed Souls: The Body in Ancient Medicine and Anatomy; R.M. Zaner. Section 2: Regional Studies. 4. Specific Diseases. The Body in Multiple Sclerosis: A Patient's Perspective; S.K. Toombs. Psychosomatics, the Lived Body, and Anthropological Medicine: Concerning a Case of Atopic Dermatitis; G. Northoff, M.A. Schwartz, O.P. Wiggins. The Body with AIDS: A Post-Structuralist Approach; J. Murphy. 5. Women's Bodies: Body Image, Size, and Objectification. Obesity, Objectification, and Identity: The Encounter with the Body as an Object in Obesity; D. Moss. Eating Disorders: The Feminist Challenge to the Concept of Pathology; S. Bordo. Breasted Experience: The Look and the Feeling; I.M. Young. Coda: The Body of the Future. The Body of the Future; E.J. Cassell. Index.