Missing bodies : the politics of visibility / Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore.

  • Casper, Monica J., 1966-
Date:
[2009], ©2009
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Publication/Creation

New York : New York University Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

x, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The bodies we see, and some that are not here -- Seen but not heard : consequences of innocence lost -- Calculated losses : taking the measure of infant mortality -- Biodisaster : "the greatest weapon of mass destruction on earth" -- Fluid matters : human biomonitoring as gendered surveillance -- "They used me" : manufacturing heroes in wartime -- It takes balls : Lance Armstrong and the triumph of American masculinity -- Excavations.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9780814716779
  • 0814716776
  • 9780814716786
  • 0814716784
  • 9780814717158
  • 0814717152