Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death

by Laura E. Tanner

Book Overview

"If the dying body makes us flinch and look away, struggling not to see what we have seen, the lost body disappears from cultural view, buried along with the sensory traces of its corporeal presence."--from the Introduction American popular culture conducts a passionate love affair with the healthy, fit, preferably beautiful body, and in recent years theories of embodiment have assumed importance in various scholarly disciplines. But what of the dying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801473136
• ISBN13: 9780801473135
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher