Ontologies and Natures

Knowledge about Health in Visual Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez

1 449 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

In Ontologies and Natures: Knowledge about Health in Visual Culture, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez argues that visual culture offers insights into how societies perceive the role of nature in pursuits to cure and care for the human body. By using a set of visual surfaces and artefacts as entry points the book sheds light on ideas about nature as a healing source.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-09-08
Mått157 x 238 x 19 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666909494

Tillhör följande kategorier

Miljömedicin inom Medicin
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Etnicitet inom Samhalle och politik

Conceptions and practices of health enact cultural understandings of nature as much as they reflect the state of our knowledges of the natural world and our place within it. By showing how these knowledges are asserted, materialized, and performed through visual representations, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez brings forth the social and cultural encounters, tensions, hierarchies, and exclusions that underscore universalist discourses of health, suggesting that epistemic inclusivity may better be approached by embracing nature as an essentially unstable object of human knowledge.