Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.
Contents:
Illness and treatment: phenomenological investigations -- Rethinking illness: Philoctetes' exile -- Rethinking pain: the paradoxical problem -- Rethinking touch: how then does it heal? -- ; Rethinking pills: fantasies, realities, possibilities -- Rethinking clinical practice: toward a more materialistic medicine -- Medicine and bioethics: hermeneutical reflections -- Rethinking diagnosis: the many texts of medicine -- Rethinking bioethics: questioning our answers, and our questions -- Rethinking organ transplants: whose body, what body? -- Discarded and recovered bodies: animals and prisoners. Rethinking factory farms: Old McDonald's had a what? -- Rethinking imprisonment: the life-world of the incarcerated -- Rethinking prisons: the enlightened (and endarkened) prison -- Rethinking prisoners and animals: "they're animals" and their animals ; Rethinking humans and/as animals: the art of shape-shifting.
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