Refiguring bodies / Elizabeth Grosz -- The experience of the body and classical psychology / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- The burden and blessing of mortality / Hans Jonas -- Ethology: Spinoza and us / Gilles Deleuze -- Bodies that matter / Judith Butler -- Techniques of the body / Marcel Mauss -- The two bodies / Mary Douglas -- Embodied information in face-to-face interaction / Erving Goffman -- Belief and the body / Pierre Bourdieu -- The grotesque image of the body and its sources / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Civilization and psychosomatics / Norbert Elias -- The political investment of the body / Michel Foucault -- Lesbian bodies: tribades, tomboys and tarts / Barbara Creed -- Thin is the feminist issue / Nicky Diamond -- Ageing and its embodiment / Chris Gilleard and Paul Higgs -- Divinity: a dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion / Michael Moon and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Ambivalent femininities / Beverley Skeggs -- In novel conditions: the cross-dressing psychiatrist / Allucquere Rosanne Stone -- Endangered-endangering: schematic racism and white paranoia / Judith Butler -- Orgasm, generation, and the politics of reproductive biology / Thomas Laqueur -- Measuring heads / Stephen J. Gould -- The body and the archive / Allan Sekula -- Visualizing the disabled body: the classical nude and the fragmented torso / Lennard J. Davis -- Bodies, disability and spaces: the social model and disabling spatial organisations / Peter Freund -- Monstrosity and the monstrous / Georges Canguilhem -- Complex systems / Emily Martin -- Portraits of people with AIDS / Douglas Crimp -- The global traffic in human organs / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- The self unmade: embodied paranoia / Arthur Frank -- Hypochondriasis: the ironic disease / Arthur Kleinman -- Genetic risk and the birth of the somatic individual / Carlos Novas and Nikolas Rose -- The biopolitics of postmodern bodies: constitutions of self in immune system discourse / Donna J. Haraway -- The pleasure of the interface / Claudia Springer -- Race ends here / Paul Gilroy -- Iatrogenesis: the visible human project and the reproduction of life / Catherine Waldby -- Twice dead: organ transplants and the reinvention of death / Margaret Lock -- Soft-soaping empire: commodity racism and imperial advertising / Anne McClintock -- The finest consumer object: the body / Jean Baudrillard -- The commercialization of discipline: keep-fit culture and its values / Roberta Sassatelli -- The united colors of diversity: essential and inessential culture / Celia Lury -- Enterprising kinship: consumer choice and the new reproductive technologies / Marilyn Strathern -- 'Clay cunningly compounded' / Peter Brown -- 'I do not want to look like ... ' / Orlan on becoming-Orlan -- Survival as a social construct / Zygmunt Bauman -- The body's problems with illness / Arthur Frank -- The body in pain: the making and unmaking of the world / Elaine Scarry.

The body has become an increasingly significant concept over recent years and this work offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories which surround the issue.

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