Hybrid bodies : rethinking heart transplantation.

Date:
[2016]
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Publication/Creation

Montreal, Quebec : The Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, [2016]

Physical description

1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes

"A project across art, social science, medicine, philosophy, sociology"--Cover.
"Ethics, psychiatry, art history, anthropology, nursing"--Back cover.
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Phi Centre in Montréal in 2014 and at the Kunst Kraft Werk in Leipzig, Germany, in 2016.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction -- PITH : the process of incorporating a transplanted heart / Heather Ross -- Reimagining hybrid embodiment : incorporations and identity in heart transplantation / Margrit Shildrick -- "The body which is not one" : four artists' responses to the culture and experience of heart transplantation / Tammer El-Sheikh -- Disrupting hybrid bodies : a personal view / Margrit Shildrick -- Biographies.

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    History of Medicine
    OO.V.AL
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ISBN

  • 9780969095613
  • 0969095619