"Published simultaneously in Canada." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Corporeal maps. Biotourism, Fantastic Voyage, and sublime inner space / Kim Sawchuk -- The visible human project: data into flesh, flesh into data / Catherine Waldby -- The brain at the end of the rainbow: the promises of brain scans in the research field and in the media / Anne Beaulieu. Genetic codifications. David Suzuki's The Secret of Life: informatics and the popular discourse of the life code / Janine Marchessault -- The language and literature of life: popular metaphors in genome research / José van Dijck -- What made Ellen (and Anne) gay? feminist critique of popular and scientific beliefs / Bonnie P. Spanier. Clinical practices. Pygmalions in plastic surgery: medical stories, masculine stories / Kathy Davis -- Community and the public body in breast cancer media activism / Lisa Cartwright -- Screening bodies, assigning meaning: ER and the technology of HIV testing / Maria Nengeh Mensah -- Complications: an analysis of medical abortions in the US / Lisa Finn -- Mothers, monsters and family values: assisted reproduction and the aging natural body / Angela Wall. Feminist science studies. Teaching in the belly of the beast: feminism in the best of all places / Anne Balsamo -- The politics of the "Sokal Affair" / Jennifer Daryl Slack and M. Mehdi Semati -- Letter to a graduate student / Ursula Franklin.
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