Body in Medical Culture

Elizabeth Klaver is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is the author of Sites of Autopsy in Contemporary Culture, also published by SUNY Press, and Performing Television: Contemporary Drama and the Media Culture and editor of Images of the Corpse: From the Renaissance to Cyberspace.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionElizabeth Klaver1. Home Bodies: Matters of Weight in Renaissance Women's Medical ManualsHillary M. Nunn2. Remapping Maternity in the Courtroom: Female Defenses and Medical Witnesses in Eighteenth-Century Infanticide ProceedingsSheena Sommers3. "Surely he cannot be flesh and blood": The Early Victorian Anatomical Museum and the Blackface MinstrelStephen Johnson4. The "Disabled Imagination" and the Masculine Metaphor in the Works of Leonard Kriegel Hayley Mitchell Haugen5. Of Genes, Mutations, and Desires in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis and Moacyr Scliar's The Centaur in the Garden CatalinaFlorina Florescu6. The Post-biological Body: Horror, Nostalgia, and the Visible Human ProjectNatalia Lizama7. Endography: A Physician's Dream of OmniscienceCatherine Belling8. Designer VaginasAlexa A. Priddy and Jennifer L. Croissant9. (Trans) Gendered Fabrications and the Surgery DebatesSally Hines10. On Slanderous Words and Bodies Out-of-Control: Hospital Humor and the Medical CarnivalesqueLisa Gabbert and Antonio Salud II11. Dr. Jarvik and Other Baby Boomers: (Still) Performing the Able BodyLinda SeidelList of ContributorsIndex

"…a real page-turner … The articles are well written, sophisticated, and intellectually stimulating." — CHOICE"One of the most impressive features of this volume is the wide range of disciplines represented throughout … Klaver's collection of essays on the body in medicine is interesting, intelligent, and readable." — H-Disability"Klaver's collection of essays on the body in medicine is interesting, intelligent, and readable. It is a good, sane take on an important topic in both cultural studies and the medical humanities." — Kathryn Montgomery, author of How Doctors Think: Clinical Judgment and the Practice of Medicine