Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from H-SCI-MED-TECH, announcement of a new book
edited by ISHN member Colin Blakemore and Sheila Jarrett.
Additional detail from the Oxford University press site: "Extensive
coverage of subjects relating to the body, from the molecular events in
individual cells to the nude in art, from birth to funeral practices,
from ape man to space travel, and the biomedical sciences in their
cultural and historical contexts."
Russell Johnson
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New! The Oxford Companion to the Body edited by Colin Blakemore and
Sheila Jennett
Section Editors: Alan Cuthbert, Roy Porter, Londa Schiebinger, Tom Sears,
and Tilli Tansey
Who is not interested in how the body works: how it grows, develops,
and ages; how it goes wrong; how it has inspired artists and been the
focus of ceremony and ritual? The Oxford Companion to the Body presents
many of the results of this curiosity from a wide variety of
viewpoints, including those of writers, life scientists, historians,
philosophers, health professionals, artists, psychologists,
anthropologists, theologians, and many others.
It provides concise and readable accounts of the structure and function
of all the major systems of the body, and the causes of disorders that
affect them. Interwoven with this coverage of the science of the body
are entertaining and informative articles on social and religious
attitudes to the body, its decoration and mutilation throughout
history, the ceremonies and myths that surround the body, and its
significance for artists, philosophers and writers. Although the 350
contributors are international experts, it is written for a wide
audience, and will appeal to anyone seeking an approachable reference
to the human body, as well as to those studying or working in related
fields.
Hardback, 276 x 219mm, 768 pages, 200 illustrations and 8pp
colour anatomical drawings
0-19-852403-X ; October 2001
See http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-852403-X for further details
and ordering information
Londa Schiebinger
Edwin E. Sparks Professor of History of Science
Department of History
Weaver Building 108
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
USA
Tel.: 814-865-1367; Fax: 814-863-7840
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