The wound and the first world war: 'Cartesian' surgeries to embodied being in psychoanalysis, electrification and skin grafting

Body and Society

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 39-61

  Slevin, Tom ^a  

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Author keywords

Abjection; Aesthetics; Body techniques; Cartesian; Embodiment; Surgery; World war

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949189667     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X08090697     Document Type: Article

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