Surgery and embodiment: Carving out subjects

Body and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-7

  Doyle, Julie ^a   Roen, Katrina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bodies; Embodied subjectivity; Identity; Self; Technologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749148066     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X07087527     Document Type: Article

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