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03926aam a2200457 i 4500 001 2D39C744F69E11E78A00251D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180111010238 008 151029s2016 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015042473 020 $a 0199793395 020 $a 9780199793396 035 $a (OCoLC)927949548 040 $a DNLM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d NLM $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d MOF $d VP@ $d IUL $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QM23.2 $b .A42 2016 060 00 $a 2016 G-382 060 10 $a HM 636 082 00 $a 611 $2 23 100 1 $a Alberti, Fay Bound, $d 1971- $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006025090 245 10 $a This mortal coil : $b the human body in history and culture / $c Fay Bound Alberti. 264 1 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xii, 289 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 520 $a "Hamlet's "mortal coil" - which eventually and inevitably we "shuffle off" when we enter the sleep of death, as he puts it - has never been static. Indeed how the human body and its component parts have been understood, individually and collectively, has shifted across time, shaped by culture, religion, and technology. In this probing and provocative new book, Fay Bound Alberti uses the global histories of medicine, pathology, and emotions to explore these changing notions. Each chapter uses a different focus - bones, skin, sexual organs, spine, tongue, heart - revealing how each body part connects to a peculiarly Western notion of expertise, one which appropriates one element from the others and ignores their interconnection. The themes examined in This Mortal Coil - the nature of identity, the relationship between the brain and the heart, and the gendering of our physical and emotional selves - are enduring ones, but perceptions of the "perfect body" or "perfect health" evolve constantly. Moving between the surface and what lies beneath, Alberti provides a rich and fascinating accounting of each part, shedding light on the role scientific developments - from medical care to plastic surgery to cloning - plays in how we look at ourselves. Written with insight and narrative verve, Alberti's provocative book reveals how the mortal coil can be unwound, and looked at as if for the first time"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction: The Body in Parts -- 1. Getting it Straight: Spines, Scoliosis and the Hunchback King -- 2. Beauty and the Breast: from Paraffin to PIP -- 3. 'Country Matters': The Language and Politics of Female Genitalia -- 4. 'Soft and Tender' or 'Weighed down by Grief:' The Emotional Heart -- 5. Mind the Brain: From 'Cold Wet Matter' to the Origin of Thought -- 6. From Excrement to Boundary: Rethinking Skin -- 7. Tongue-Tied? From Nagging Wives to a Question of Taste -- 8. Fat. So? Gut Knowledge and the Meanings of Obesity -- Conclusion: Towards Embodiment. 650 0 $a Human body $x History. 650 0 $a Human body $x Social aspects. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85015232 650 0 $a Health $x History. 650 7 $a Health. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00952743 650 7 $a Human body. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01730057 650 7 $a Human body $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01730101 650 12 $a Human Body. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018594 650 12 $a Anatomy $x history. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000715Q000266 650 22 $a Physiological Phenomena. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010829 650 22 $a Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007722 650 22 $a History, 20th Century. $0 https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049673 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210014817.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2D39C744F69E11E78A00251D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search