Fracture: Adventures of a Broken Body

by Ann Oakley

Book Overview

The starting point of Ann Oakley's fascinating book is the fracture of her right arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA. What begins as an accident becomes a journey into some critical themes of modern Western culture: the crisis of embodiment and the perfect self; the confusion between body and identity; the commodification of bodies and body parts; the intrusive surveillance and profiteering of medicine and the law; the problem of ageing; and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861349378
• ISBN13: 9781861349378
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.7"