| Description |
xv, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Where land and body meet : body culture and nature -- 2. Machine body of modern Western medicine -- 3. Battlefield body of illness narratives -- 4. Grotesque body of the lower strata -- 5. Monstrous body of the slimy depths -- 6. Fascist body of the war-machine -- 7. Writing on the surface of the textual body -- 8. Sporting body imprisoned in the time-machine -- 9. Cyborg : the body-machine of the civilian-soldier -- 10. Taoist body of the Earth -- 11. Healthy land, healthy body : state of the environment, state of health |
| Summary |
"Exploring the relationship of human bodies with nature and culture, this book looks at how humans affect their natural and cultural environments and how those environments affect humans. Examining how the body has been modelled, and the ways in which the body, disease and illness have been figured in metaphors, the book argues for an environmentally sustainable and healthy relationship between the body and the earth. Ultimately the book explores how to make the relationship and interaction between human beings/bodies and ecosystems/ecology ecologically sustainable."--Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects.
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Culture.
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Human ecology.
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| LC no. |
2008024818 |
| ISBN |
9780230222731 (hbk.) |
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0230222730 (hbk.) |
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