The Body (Darwin College Lectures, Series Number 13) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521782929 ISBN 13: 9780521782920

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The Body is a multidisciplinary collection of essays from a number of world-renowned experts on the topic of the body arising from the 14th annual Darwin College lecture series. It deals with our understanding of the modern body from a number of different standpoints. The opening essays deal with topics of developmental biology of the body, the human genome project, and in vitro fertilisation and the possibility of human clones. Other essays explore the subject of bodies and the criminal mind, dead bodies and human rights, science and the politics of incarnation, bodies at the boundaries of pornography and art and the body in archeology.

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Review:

"...a thoughtful and topical volume...a coherent and approachable into current themes in the study of the human body as both a biological and cultural object, its attributes and its representation." SAS Bulletin

Book Description:

Eight essays on our perception of the human body, in society, popular culture, science and the arts by highly eminent researchers. From the remarkable molecular processes that occur during the development of the body, to the ethics of reproduction and our perception of death, and of the body as art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521782929
• ISBN 13: 9780521782920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 182
• Editor: Sweeney Sean, Hodder Ian