Note 5 retrouvez the body in medical culture et des millions de livres en stock sur amazonfr achetez neuf ou doccasion. The body in medical culture elizabeth riaver ed the body in medical culture albany state u of new york p 2009 stanton b garner jr body in medical culture edited by elizabeth klaver is an engaging exploration of the body as it has been represented monitored penetrated and reshaped by an increasingly medical ized culture and its practices the collections introduction and. As an object of scrutiny the medicalized body occupies center stage in the work of doctors nurses medical examiners and other medical professionals who mediate broader cultural understandings of pathology illness and the various physical transformations associated with life and death the body in medical culture. Review article re shaping the space between bodies and culture embodying the biomedicalised body review of culture kinship and genes towards cross cultural genetics edited by angus clarke and evelyn parsons embodied progress a cultural account of assisted conception by sarah franklin leaky bodies and boundaries feminism postmodernism and bioethics by margrit shildrick bodies . The body in medical culture explores how the body functions within medical culture and examines the metaphors and models of the body used to understand medical phenomena including disease diagnostic practices wellness anatomy surgery and medical research scholars from a wide range of disciplines engage representations of bodies including polio and masculinity sex reassignment surgery