The Visible Woman

The Visible Woman PDF Author: Paula A. Treichler
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814715567
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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Book Description
Professional, academic, activists, and patients provide 13 views of gender and the role of visual and textual representation of the human body in general and of women in particular in contemporary health and science. Among their topics are fetal photography, mammography, mental retardation, chronic fatigue syndrome, venereal diseases, abortion, living on disability in the wake of the ADA, and the immune system and the global economics of food. Lightly illustrated in black and white. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR