The Malleable Body

Author : Heidi Hausse
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526160641
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The malleable body written by Heidi Hausse and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writings of craft surgeons and learned physicians to follow the heated debates that arose from changing practices of removing limbs, uncovering tense moments in which decisions to operate were made. Importantly, it teases out surgeons’ ideas about the body embedded in their technical instructions. This unique study also explores the material culture of mechanical hands that amputees commissioned locksmiths, clockmakers, and other artisans to create, revealing their roles in developing a new prosthetic technology. Over two centuries of surgical and artisanal interventions emerged a growing perception, fundamental to biomedicine today, that humans could alter the body — that it was malleable.

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Total Pages : 2882 pages
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Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 2882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Tulle
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230227635
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ageing, The Body and Social Change written by E. Tulle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the relationship between embodiment and the production of the key structures which frame agency to map out potential for social change. It uses modalities of ageing embodiment in the context of sport participation in later life, specifically Master athletics, including barriers, opportunities and physiological dimensions.

Author : Gavin Schaffer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134905408
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racializing the Soldier written by Gavin Schaffer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racializing the Soldier explores the impact of racial beliefs on the formation and development of modern armed forces and the ways in which these forces have been presented and historicized from a global perspective. With a wide geographical and temporal spread, the collection looks at the disparate ways that race has influenced military development. In particular, it explores the extent to which ideas of racial hierarchy and type have conditioned thinking about what kinds of soldiers should be used and in what roles. This volume offers a highly original military, social and cultural history, questioning the borders both of racialization and of the military itself. It considers the extent to which discourses of gender, nationality and religion have informed racialization, and probes the influence of expert studies of soldiers as indicators of national population types. By focusing mostly, but not exclusively, on colonial and post-colonial states, the book considers how racialized militaries both shaped and reflected conflict in the modern world, ultimately explaining how the history of this idea has often underpinned modern military planning and thinking. This book is based on a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.

Author : Canada. Patent Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1792 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Patent Office Record written by Canada. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1542 pages
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Download or read book The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights and Trade Marks written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 594 pages
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Download or read book Illustrated official journal (patents) written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hassard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134644175
Total Pages : 201 pages
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Download or read book Contested Bodies written by John Hassard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body occupies a prime position in contemporary theoretical work, yet still there is no consensus on exactly what it is and what constitutes it. Contested Bodies brings together a number of different accounts and perspectives on the body, drawing out some of the key connections and disjunctures from this most contested of topics. This volume features fresh and fascinating contributions from some of the leading thinkers and upcoming theorists in the field. Themes that run through the work include: * the place of the body in theory * the notion of labour in the production of bodies * the transformative potential of bodies on spaces. Grounded in real life experience and examples, this key text will be a valuable reference for undergraduates of sociology and gender studies.

Author : Claudia Castañeda
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383896
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figurations written by Claudia Castañeda and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated—how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to very powerful effect. Situated at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, cultural, and science and technology studies, this book provides a remarkable map of the child's meaning and movement across transnational circuits of exchange. Castañeda investigates the construction of the child as both a natural and cultural body, the character of its embodiment, and its imaginative appeal in various settings. The sites through which she tracks the bodily production and deployment of the child include nineteenth-century developmental science; cognitive neuroscience in the late twentieth century; international adoption; rumors and media coverage of child-organ stealing; and poststructuralist theory. Her work reveals the extent to which the child's cultural significance and value lie in its status as a body whose incompleteness makes it "available" for such varied uses. Figurations establishes the child as a key figure for understanding and rethinking the politics of nature, culture, bodies, and subjects in changing "global" worlds.

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Total Pages : 938 pages
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Download or read book Railroad Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: