This Mortal Coil -

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Résumé :
The story of the body. Fay Bound Alberti takes the human body apart in order to put it back anew, telling the cultural history of our key organs and systems from the inside out, from blood to guts, brains to sex organs.

Biographie:
Fay Bound Alberti is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow in History at Queen Mary University of London, having taught previously at universities throughout the UK, including Manchester, UCL, and Lancaster. A founding member of the Centre for the History of Emotions, she has written extensively in the fields of history, medical history, and women's history, including Matters of the Heart: Locating Emotions in Medical and Cultural History (2010), also published by Oxford University Press, which was shortlisted for the Longman History Today book of the year award. She is also an experienced philanthropy advisor who has worked as Head of Philanthropy for the Arcadia foundation and Head of Medical Humanities Grants for the Wellcome Trust.

Sommaire:
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; Further Reading; Notes; Index