Ivan Crozier is Senior Lecturer in Science Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK and co-editor of Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality.

• IllustrationsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Bodies in History - The Task of the Historian Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh, UK1 Death and Birth Malcolm Nicolson, University of Glasgow, UK2 Performing the Western Sexual Body after 1920 Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh, UK3 The Technological Fix and the Modern Body: Surgery as a Paradigmatic Case Thomas Schlich, McGill University, Canada4 Diseased Bodies in the Modern World Anna Crozier, University of Exeter, UK5 Popular Beliefs Dan O'Connor, Johns Hopkins University, USA6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal Christopher E. Forth, University of Kansas, USA7 Re-markable Bodies Anna Cole, University of London, UK and Anna Haebich, Griffith University, Australia8 Body Marks, Bestial/Divine/Natural: An Essay into the Social and Biotechnological Imaginaries, 1920-2005 and Bodies to Come Michael M. J. Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA9 Dissolution, Reconstruction, and Reaction in Visual Art, 1920 to the Present Ana Carden-Coyne, University of Manchester, UK10 The History of the Body: Self and Society, 1920-2000 D. M. Vyleta, Independent scholar, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index