Category: General and Theory
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Estreich, George, Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
George Estreich, Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2019) 240 pp. $27.95 Hb. ISBN: 9780262039567 Across ten chapters of Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves, George Estreich applies a rhetorical lens to expose the tactics of persuasion and exclusion employed by…
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Vigarello, Georges, Le Sentiment de Soi. Histoire de la Perception du Corps
Georges Vigarello, Le Sentiment de soi. Histoire de la perception du corps (Éditions du Seuil, 2014) 336 pp. €.23.00 ISBN: 2020898942 Building upon his life-long corpus of work on the history of the body, Georges Vigarello’s Le Sentiment de soi offers a captivating historical account of the evolving perception of the human body from the…
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Welch, Tana Jean, Advancing Medical Posthumanism through Twenty-First Century American Poetry
Tana Jean Welch, Advancing Medical Posthumanism through Twenty-First Century American Poetry (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) xv + 200 pp. £99.99. Hb: ISBN 978-3-031-49887-9 Tana Jean Welch inhabits a space where poetry, posthumanism, and medicine converge to show how poetry can provide a posthumanist perspective that activates an ethical understanding of what it means to be ‘human’…
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Abbott, Steve, The Proof Stage: How Theatre Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics
Steve Abbott, The Proof Stage: How Theatre Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023) 396 pp. $35.00/£30.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780691206080 Near the middle of The Proof Stage, his absorbing new book on mathematics and theatre, Steve Abbott gives an account of Samuel Beckett’s strange, wordless play Quad (1981): ‘…there is no…
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Reynolds, Andrew S., Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences
Andrew S. Reynolds, Understanding Metaphors in the Life Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 223 pp. $14.95 Pb. ISBN 9781108938778 I think most of us know that popular science arrives to us refracted through many media. As we follow the ray to the source, we may find that it arrives to us a little slant,…
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Nüsslein-Volhard, Christiane, Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics, illustrated by Suse Grützmacher; translated by Jonathan Howard (The MIT Press, 2019), 116 pp. $14.95 Hb. ISBN: 9780262039949. ‘Nature offers herself to us in many guises; what she hides, she at least hints at; she provides rich material for both the scientist and the philosopher,…
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Auyoung, Elaine, When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind
Elaine Auyoung, When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 164 pp. £68.00 Hb. £14.99 Pb. ISBN: 9780190845476 It is a well-known fact that realist novels are characterized by their verisimilitude. In When Fiction Feels Real, Elaine Auyoung sets out to explore some of the ways these texts achieve this and how they put readers ‘into relation with fictional…
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Murray, Stuart, Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines
Stuart Murray, Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 144 pp. £40.50 Hb. £13.49 Pb. £10.79 E-book. ISBN: 9781350172180 ‘Diagnosis and prognosis are moments that are full of words’, writes Stuart Murray, in his new monograph, Medical Humanities and Disability Studies: In/Disciplines: ‘they might be comforting, terrifying or mystifying’ (6). In his…
