| Our Strange Body: Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Medical Interventions Contributor(s): Slatman, Jenny (Author) |
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ISBN: 9089646477 ISBN-13: 9789089646477 Publisher: Amsterdam University Press OUR PRICE: $45.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Philosophy | Mind & Body - Medical | Surgery - General |
| Dewey: 617.001 |
| Physical Information: 0.15" H x 6.2" W x 9.13" (0.64 lbs) 180 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The ever increasing ability of medical technology to reshape the human body in fundamental ways - from organ and tissue transplants to reconstructive surgery and prosthetics - is something now largely taken for granted. But for a philosopher, such interventions raise fundamental and fascinating questions about our sense of individual identity and its relationship to the physical body. Drawing on and engaging with philosophers from across the centuries, Jenny Slatman here develops a novel argument: that our own body always entails a strange dimension, a strangeness that enables us to incorporate radical physical changes. |
Contributor Bio(s): Slatman, Jenny: - Jenny Slatman is associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Health, Ethics and Society at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. |
