The body in medical culture / edited by Elizabeth Klaver.

Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2009], ©2009.

ix, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Home bodies : matters of weight in Renaissance women's medical manuals / Hillary M. Nunn -- Remapping maternity in the courtroom : female defenses and medical witnesses in eighteenth-century infanticide proceedings / Sheena Sommers -- "Surely he cannot be flesh and blood" : the early Victorian anatomical museum and the blackface minstrel / Stephen Johnson -- The "disabled imagination" and the masculine metaphor in the works of Leonard Kriegel / Hayley Mitchell Haugen -- Of genes, mutations, and desires in Franz Kafka's The metamorphosis and Moacyr Scliar'sThe centaur in the garden / Catalina Florina Florescu -- The post-biological body : horror, nostalgia and the Visible Human Project / Natalia Lizama -- Endography : a physician's dream of omniscience / Catherine Belling -- Designer vaginas / Alexa A. Priddy and Jennifer L. Croissant -- (Trans) gendered fabrications and the surgery debates / Sally Hines -- On slanderous words and bodies out-of-control : hospital humor and the medical carnivalesque / Lisa Gabbert and Antonio Salud II -- Dr. Jarvik and other baby boomers : (still) performing the able body / Linda Seidel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.