1st Edition
Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop
Bodies of Information initiates the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by encompassing interdisciplinary Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including literary analysis, sociology, criminology, anthropology, osteology and cultural studies, to read a variety of types of artefacts, from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase Global Bioethics to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter’s founding vision from historical perspectives, and asks, how did we get here from then?
Introduction: Bodies of Information
Chris Mounsey and Stan Booth
Part I: The Unknown Body
1. Dis/ability in Roman Dorset: An Integrated Osteobiography Approach
Stephanie Evelyn-Wright
2. The Imagined Emaciated Body in Late-Medieval English Memorial Sculpture
Christina Welch
3. Hideous and Mutilated: The Wedded Body in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
Marianne Legault
4: Prosthetic Pomp: The Significance of Samuel Foote’s Amputation to His Performance in The Nabob
Jessi Parrott
Part II: The General Body
5. Violence and the Marked Body: (In)Visible Trauma in London During the Long Eighteenth Century
Madeleine Mant
6. Teacher of Right: Rousseau at the Limits of the State
Emile Bojesen
7. A "Profession" of Apology: Criminal Doctors or Medical Negligence and the Fuzzy Boundaries of Justice
Stan Booth
8. Precarious Health: Thomas Beddoes’s Pneumatic Therapy
Travis Chi Wing Lau
Part III: The Particular Body
9. The Spector of the Singular Body in Frankenstein: Difference and Reparation
Miriam Wallace
10. The Infinite Variety of La Casati
Will Visconti
11. "The Vagabond Venus": Cesare Lombroso Colonizes Tattoos
Sean Bride
12. A Question of Objectivity?: Reading Nicki Minaj’s VariAble Body
Chris Mounsey
Biography
Chris Mounsey is Professor of eighteenth-century cultural studies at the University of Winchester.
Stan Booth is an associate lecturer at the University of Winchester.
