One of Us : Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal / Alice Domurat Dreger.
2005
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Title
One of Us : Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal / Alice Domurat Dreger.
ISBN
9780674258082
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2005]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (208 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674258082 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.196/043
Summary
Must children born with socially challenging anatomies have their bodies changed because others cannot be expected to change their minds? One of Us views conjoined twinning and other "abnormalities" from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. Anatomy matters, Alice Domurat Dreger tells us, because the senses we possess, the muscles we control, and the resources we require to keep our bodies alive limit and guide what we experience in any given context. Her deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the breadth and depth of that context--the extent of the social frame upon which we construct the "normal." In doing so, the book calls into question assumptions about anatomy and normality, and transforms our understanding of how we are all intricately and inextricably joined.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
1 The Limits of Individuality
2 Split Decisions
3 What Sacrifice
4 Freeing the Irish Giant
5 The Future of Anatomy
Notes
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction
1 The Limits of Individuality
2 Split Decisions
3 What Sacrifice
4 Freeing the Irish Giant
5 The Future of Anatomy
Notes
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index