Stel een vraag
Met het formulier hier onder kunt u contact op nemen met boekwinkel De Slegte.
Roy Porter 16611 - Bodies Politic
De vraag gaat over de volgende titel:
| Afbeelding: |
|
|---|---|
| Schrijver: | Roy Porter 16611 |
| Titel: | Bodies Politic |
| ISBN: | 9780801439537 |
| Uitgever: | Cornell University Press |
| Bijzonderheid: | Goed, 2001, Hardcover, 328p |
| Prijs: |
€ 12,50
€ 4,50
|
| Meer info | The renowned historian Roy Porter here takes us on an entertaining trip through more than two hundred years of visual and verbal accounts of the body and medicine. Focusing his attention for the first time on visual imagery, Porter examines the ways in which the sick and their healers were represented to the culture at large from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The author combines erudition, a sharp sense of humor, and abundant art to show how contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body were mapped onto antithetical notions of the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. He juxtaposes images of disease to illustrations of medical practice, exploring self-presentations by physicians, surgeons, and quacks and showing how practitioners' public identities changed over time. Bodies Politic argues that the human body is the chief signifier and communicator of all manner of meanings—religious, moral, political, and medical alike—and that pre-scientific medicine was an art that depended heavily on performance, ritual, rhetoric, and theater. Throughout, Porter makes clear the wide metaphorical and symbolic implications of disease and doctoring. |
| Boek bekijken | |
De verkoper zal binnen 3 werkdagen contact met u opnemen om de koop verder af te handelen.