{"product_id":"presence-in-the-flesh-katharine-young-9780674701816","title":"Presence in the Flesh: The Body in Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003eAny woman who has been examined by a gynecologist could tell Descartes a thing or two about the mind\/body problem. Is her body an object? Is it the self? Is it both, and if so, how? Katharine Young takes up this problem in a book that looks at medicine's means of separating self and body--and at the body's ways of resisting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDisembodiment--rendering the body an object and the self bodyless--is the foundational gesture of medicine. How, then, does medical practice acknowledge the presence of the person in the objectified body? Young considers in detail the \"choreography\" such a maneuver requires--and the different turns it takes during a routine exam, or surgery, or even an autopsy. Distinctions between public and private, inside and outside, assume new meanings as medical practice proceeds from one venue to the next--waiting room to examining table, anteroom to operating theater, from the body's exterior to its internal organs. Young inspects the management of these and other \"boundaries\"--as a physician adds layers of clothing and a patient removes layers, as the rules of objective and subjective discourse shift, as notions of intimacy determine the etiquette of exchanges between doctor and patient. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom embodied positions within the realm of medicine and disembodied positions outside it, Young richly conveys the complexity of presence in the flesh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katharine Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 067470181X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674701816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.24w x 0.88d","brand":"Katharine Young","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48448882639103,"sku":"9780674701816","price":67.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4436878b-a1b6-4e77-a216-826c967aa535.jpg?v=1777260998","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/presence-in-the-flesh-katharine-young-9780674701816","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}