Surface Tensions

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Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self

By Lenore Manderson

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Surface Tensions explores how individuals rebuild their identities and lives after catastrophic bodily changes such as loss of limbs or organ replacement. Drawing on over 300 in-depth interviews, Lenore Manderson combines personal narratives with insights from art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine to reveal how people re-establish coherence in their bodies and biographies.
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This book is essential for readers interested in medical anthropology, disability studies, and cultural studies, as well as professionals involved in rehabilitation, care, and post-trauma support.

Using a narrative epistemology approach against the backdrop of popular culture and the history of science, Manderson shows how people remake their bodies, identities, and biographies after catastrophic bodily loss and change.

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Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change—the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals to show how they re-establish the coherence of their bodies, identities, and biographies.

In addition to offering important new insights into the care, rehabilitation, and rehabituation of post-trauma patients, Manderson’s work challenges conventional ideas about the nature of embodiment and is an important contribution to medical anthropology, disability studies, and cultural studies.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781611320985

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 498g

Pages: 295

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Education & Reference Lenore Manderson Non-Fiction

About the Author

Lenore Manderson is an inaugural Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and the Faculty of Arts, at Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia. As a medical anthropologist, public health scholar and social historian of medicine, she has been active in education and research on inequality, social exclusion and marginality, infectious and chronic disease, gender and sexuality, in Australia, Southeast and East Asia, and Africa. She has published over 500 works, including the co-edited volumes Global Health Policy, Local Realities (2000), Social Capital and Social Justice (2009), and Chronic Conditions, Fluid States (2010). She collaborated in and is the subject of the film, Nerve (USA, 2007). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the World Academy of Art and Science, and is Editor of the international journal Medical Anthropology .