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

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

Lenore Manderson

295 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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