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Darrera modificació: 2017-12-27
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Kalof, Linda - Bynum, William (eds.), A Cultural History of the Human Body, Oxford - Nova York, Berg, 2010, 6 vols.
- Resum
- A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social, spiritual and cultural object.
Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters:
1. Birth and Death
2. Health and Disease
3. Sex & Sexuality
4. Medical Knowledge and Technology
5. Popular Beliefs
6. Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal
7. Marked Bodies I: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability and Disease
8. Marked Bodies II: the Bestial, the Divine and the Natural
9. Cultural Representations of the Body
10. The Self and Society
This means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on the human body through history.
Contents:
-- Volume 1: A Cultural History of the Human Body in Antiquity (750 BCE - 1000 CE) / Edited by Daniel Garrison, Northwestern University
-- Volume 2: A Cultural History of the Human Body in The Medieval Age (500 - 1500) / Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University
* Introduction / Monica H. Green · 1
* Birth and death / Katharine Park · 17
* Health, disease, and the medieval body / Ann G. Carmichael · 39
* The sexual body / Ruth Mazo Karras & Jacqueline Murray · 59
* The body inferred: knowing the body through the dissection of texts / Fernando Salmón · 77
* Bodies and the supernatural: humans, demons, and angels / Anke Bernau · 99
* Cabré i Pairet (2010), "Beautiful bodies" · 121
* Green (2010), "Bodily essences: bodies as ..." · 149
* The diversity of human kind / Monica H. Green · 163
* Cultural representations of the body / Samantha Riches & Bettina Bildhauer · 181
* Self and society / Sylvia Huot · 203
-- Volume 3: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Renaissance (1400 - 1650) / Edited by Linda Kalof, Michigan State University and William Bynum, University College London
* Introduction / William Bynum
* Birth and death in early modern Europe / Lianne McTavish
* Why me? why now? how? the body in health and disease / Margaret Healy
* Sexuality: of man, woman, and beastly business / Katherine Crawford
* The body in/as text: medical knowledge and technologies in the Renaissance / Susan Broomhall
* The common body: Renaissance popular beliefs / Karen Raber
* Beauty and concepts of the ideal / Mary Rogers
* The marked body as otherness in Renaissance Italian culture / Patrizia Bettella
* The marked body: the witches, Lady Macbeth, and the relics / Diane Parkiss
* Fashioning civil bodies and "others": cultural representation / Margaret Healy
* Renaissance selves, Renaissance bodies / Margaret L. King
-- Volume 4: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment (1650 - 1800) / Edited by Carole Reeves, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London.
-- Volume 5: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire (1800 - 1920) / Edited by Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine in Washington, DC, and Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College of New Jersey
-- Volume 6: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Modern Age (1900-21st Century) / Edited by Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh
- Matèries
- Història de la cultura
Història de la medicina
Sexualitat
- Notes
- Fitxa de l'editor: http://www.bergpublishers.com/?tabid=14882
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