Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self by Lenore Manderson

Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self

Lenore Manderson

294 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change--the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular...

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