Revealing Bodies

Revealing Bodies
Author: Erin M. Goss
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-10-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1611483956

Revealing Bodies considers three thinkers not often read together, in order to ask a question: how is it that we claim to know the body? This book explores a question with wide-ranging stakes both for those with specialized interest in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture and with a broader interest in bodily representation.

(Un)veiling Bodies

(Un)veiling Bodies
Author: Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto
Publisher: Legenda
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2021-08-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781781884294

Documentary plays an essential role in the struggles over memories of Latin America's dictatorial pasts. Ever since Chile's military coup of 11 September 1973, whether inside the country or in exile, filmmakers have passionately and incessantly documented, created, and reenacted memories from this traumatic event and its aftermath. (Un)veiling Bodies analyses the rich landscape of Chilean documentary during the first two decades after the restoration of civilian rule in 1990. Ramírez-Soto proposes a trajectory that shifts from revealing the bodies of direct victims to unveiling the body of the film itself. This is a journey deeply intertwined with the country's own democratic transition. Informed by the affective turn in film studies, this book offers a novel approach to this largely unexplored field of Chilean cinema by arguing that these heterogeneous works shift from a 'cinema of the affected' to a 'cinema of affect'. By doing so, these documentaries contribute to Chilean society's own restoration of the senses. Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto is Assistant Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. Her articles have appeared in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Rethinking History, and Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. She is also the coeditor of Nomadías: El cine de Marilú Mallet, Valeria Sarmiento y Angelina Vázquez (2016).

The Body Unveiled

The Body Unveiled
Author: Stephen John Campbell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1997
Genre: Anatomy, Artistic
ISBN:

Bodies in Flux

Bodies in Flux
Author: Christa Teston
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2017-05-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 022645083X

Doctors, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of “certainty” in medical practice. To help navigate the chaos caused by ongoing bodily change we rely on scientific reductions and deductions. We take what we know now and make best guesses about what will be. But bodies in flux always outpace the human gaze. Particularly in cancer care, processes deep within our bodies are at work long before we even know where to look. In the face of constant biological and technological change, how do medical professionals ultimately make decisions about care? Bodies in Flux explores the inventive ways humans and nonhumans work together to manufacture medical evidence. Each chapter draws on rhetorical theory to investigate a specific scientific method for negotiating medical uncertainty in cancer care, including evidential visualization, assessment, synthesis, and computation. Case studies unveil how doctors rely on visuals when deliberating about a patient’s treatment options, how members of the FDA use inferential statistics to predict a drug’s effectiveness, how researchers synthesize hundreds of clinical trials into a single evidence-based recommendation, and how genetic testing companies compute and commoditize human health. Teston concludes by advocating for an ethic of care that pushes back against the fetishization of certainty—an ethic of care that honors human fragility and bodily flux.

Mormonism Unveiled

Mormonism Unveiled
Author: John Doyle Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1892
Genre: Mountain Meadows Massacre, Utah, 1857
ISBN:

Isis Unveiled

Isis Unveiled
Author: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher:
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1919
Genre: Occultism and science
ISBN: