Science, Reason, Modernity

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary provides an introduction to a legacy of philosophical and social scientif... Lees meer

Human Remains

Jonathan Strauss

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• The living and the dead cohabited Paris until the late eighteenth century, when, in the name of public health, measures were taken to drive the latter... Lees meer

Chagas Disease

François Delaporte

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• François Delaporte's Chagas Disease chronicles Brazilian medicine's encounter with a disease, an insect, and a history of discovery. Between 1909 and ... Lees meer

Wording the World

Roma Chatterji

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• The essays in this book explore the critical possibilities that have been opened by Veena Das's work. Taking off from her writing on pain as a call fo... Lees meer

The New Wounded

Catherine Malabou

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contempora... Lees meer

Writings on Medicine

Georges Canguilhem

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• At the time of his death in 1995, Georges Canguilhem was a highly respected historian of science and medicine, whose engagement with questions of norm... Lees meer

The New Wounded

Catherine Malabou

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contempora... Lees meer

Transplanting the Metaphysical Organ

Leif Weatherby

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Around 1800, German romanticism developed a philosophy this study calls "Romantic organology." Scientific and philosophical notions of biological func... Lees meer

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor

Anson Rabinbach

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of dig... Lees meer

Pathological Realities

Mirko Grmek

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) is one of the most significant figures in the history of medicine, and has long been considered a pioneer of the field. The... Lees meer

Figures of Medicine

François Delaporte

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• What does the infamous face transplant in France in 2005 share with the examination of "swollen faces" in Latin America in the 1930s? What does blood ... Lees meer

Systems of Life

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Systems of Life offers a wide-ranging revaluation of the emergence of biopolitics in Europe from the mid- eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. In... Lees meer

Realizing the Witch

Richard Baxstrom, Todd Meyers

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Benjamin Christensen's Häxan ( The Witch , 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analys... Lees meer

Selected Writings

Henri Atlan

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Best known for his pioneering work in theories of self-organization and complexity, the biophysicist and philosopher Henri Atlan has during the past t... Lees meer

Figures of Medicine

François Delaporte

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• What does the infamous face transplant in France in 2005 share with the examination of "swollen faces" in Latin America in the 1930s? What does blood ... Lees meer

The Ploy of Instinct

Kathleen Frederickson

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confessi... Lees meer

The Government of Life

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Foucault's late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political thought a... Lees meer

Wording the World

Roma Chatterji

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• The essays in this book explore the critical possibilities that have been opened by Veena Das's work. Taking off from her writing on pain as a call fo... Lees meer

Selected Writings

Henri Atlan

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Best known for his pioneering work in theories of self-organization and complexity, the biophysicist and philosopher Henri Atlan has during the past t... Lees meer

Affliction

Veena Das

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. It tra... Lees meer

The Ploy of Instinct

Kathleen Frederickson

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• It is paradoxical that instinct became a central term for late Victorian sexual sciences as they were elaborated in the medicalized spaces of confessi... Lees meer

Pathological Realities

Mirko Grmek

• Paperback | Engels | Forms of Living
• Mirko D. Grmek (1924-2000) is one of the most significant figures in the history of medicine, and has long been considered a pioneer of the field. The... Lees meer

Levels of Organic Life and the Human

Helmuth Plessner

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• A modern classic, this powerful and sophisticated account of embodiment was first published in German in 1928 and now appears in English for the first... Lees meer

Being Brains

Fernando Vidal, Francisco Ortega

• Hardcover | Engels | Forms of Living
• Being Brains offers a critical exploration of neurocentrism, the belief that "we are our brains," which became widespread in the 1990s. Encouraged by ... Lees meer