Dystopian anxieties versus utopian ideals: Medicine from frankenstein to the visible human project and body worlds

Science as Culture

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-84

  Stern, Megan ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ART; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BODY IMAGE; CADAVER; COMMODIFICATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DISSECTION; ETHICS; FEMALE; FEMINISM; FRANKENSTEIN (SHELLEY, M.); HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDICINE; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; PHILOSOPHY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLICATION; SCIENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECT;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; FRANKENSTEIN (SHELLEY, M.); HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH;

ANATOMY; ANATOMY, ARTISTIC; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; BODY IMAGE; CADAVER; CAPITALISM; COMMODIFICATION; CULTURE; DISSECTION; EXHIBITS; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN BODY; HUMANS; LITERATURE; MALE; MEDICINE; POSTMODERNISM; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC OPINION; SCIENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL VALUES; VISIBLE HUMAN PROJECTS;

EID: 33746556903     PISSN: 09505431     EISSN: 14701189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09505430500529748     Document Type: Article

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