Vital Signs: Feminist Reconfigurations of the Bio/logical Body

by Margrit Shildrick (Editor), Janet Price (Editor)

Vital Signs vigorously brings feminist philosophical and postmodern thinking to bear on the topics of biomedicine and the body, examining issues such as meditating bodies; sexuality and the clinical encounter; the heart as metaphor; spatiality of bodies and sexual abuse; postcolonial bodies and the clinic; biopsychiatry; tanning; disabilities; and hysteria.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998