Book ID: CBB890328043

Embodiment and mechanisation : Reciprocal understandings of body and machine from the Renaissance to the present (2014)

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Daniel Black (Author)


Ashgate


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 209
Language: English

Drawing on philosophical, neurological and cultural answers to the question of what constitutes a body, this book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs. At the same time, it draws upon newer perspectives on technology and embodied human thought in order to highlight the limitations and inadequacies of such beliefs and suggest alternative perspectives.

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Review Whitney Laemmli (October 2016) Review of "Embodiment and mechanisation : Reciprocal understandings of body and machine from the Renaissance to the present". Technology and Culture (pp. 1008-1010). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hausse, Heidi
Samuels, Tristan
Francesco Gaglianò
Armano, Linda
Grafton, Anthony
Gonzalez-Crussi, F.
Concepts
Human body
Medicine
Technology
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Embodiment; corporeality
Philosophy
Time Periods
Early modern
Renaissance
Medieval
17th century
16th century
Modern
Places
Italy
Germany
Europe
Venice (Italy)
England
London (England)
Institutions
Company of Barber Surgeons (London)
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