Turner Bryan S. Routledge Handbook of Body Studies

Routledge, 2012. — 428 p.In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies -- such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics -- have changed how we think about the body. In this collection of thirty original essays by leading figures in the field, these issues are explored across a number of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, including pragmatism, feminism, queer theory, post-modernism, post-humanism, cultural.