The Body in Medical Culture Book

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction Elizabeth Klaver 1

1 Home Bodies: Matters of Weight in Renaissance Women's Medical Manuals Hillary M. Nunn 15

2 Remapping Maternity in the Courtroom: Female Defenses and Medical Witnesses in Eighteenth-Century Infanticide Proceedings Sheena Sommers 37

3 "Surely he cannot be flesh and blood": The Early Victorian Anatomical Museum and the Blackface Minstrel Stephen Johnson 61

4 The "Disabled Imagination" and the Masculine Metaphor in the Works of Leonard Kriegel Hayley Mitchell Haugen 89

5 Of Genes, Mutations, and Desires in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Moacyr Scliar's The Centaur in the Garden Catalina Florina Florescu 109

6 The Post-biological Body: Horror, Nostalgia, and the Visible Human Project Natalia Lizama 125

7 Endography: A Physician's Dream of Omniscience Catherine Belling 151

8 Designer Vaginas Alexa A. Priddy Jennifer L. Croissant 173

9 (Trans) Gendered Fabrications and the Surgery Debates Sally Hines 193

10 On Slanderous Words and Bodies-Out-of-Control: Hospital Humor and the Medical Carnivalesque Lisa Gabbert Antonio Salud 209

11 Dr. Jarvik and Other Baby Boomers: (Still) Performing the Able Body Linda Seidel 229

List of Contributors 243

Index 247