What is included with this book?
List of Table and Illustrations | p. ix |
Preface | p. x |
Acknowledgements | p. xv |
Where Land and Body Meet: Body Culture and Nature | p. 1 |
The body: The starting point | p. 2 |
Stigmata | p. 7 |
Body techniques | p. 13 |
Machine Body of Modern Western Medicine | p. 19 |
The body as machine | p. 20 |
Body machinery | p. 23 |
Medical mechanics | p. 27 |
Mapping the machine of the body | p. 31 |
Battlefield Body of Illness Narratives | p. 37 |
Illness narratives | p. 37 |
The body as battlefield | p. 41 |
The military metaphor in hypermodern medicine | p. 47 |
The earth as body/body as earth | p. 49 |
Grotesque Body of the Lower Strata | p. 56 |
The popular body of the marketplace | p. 56 |
The bourgeois body | p. 60 |
The s(ub)lime and beautiful body and landscape | p. 63 |
The body without organs | p. 69 |
Monstrous Body of the Slimy Depths | p. 74 |
Grotesque, gargantuan, generous, grateful | p. 76 |
The monstrous-maternal | p. 80 |
Orally sadistic alien | p. 82 |
Sky gods, earth goddesses | p. 86 |
Fascist Body of the War-Machine | p. 90 |
Maculinist, monumental, machinic, metallic, muscular | p. 91 |
Bachelor machines for a bachelor birth | p. 95 |
The militarisation of civilian life | p. 99 |
The war against nature | p. 102 |
Writing on the Surface of the Textual Body | p. 108 |
Is the soul the prison of the body? | p. 109 |
The body writes back | p. 113 |
Body-writing machines | p. 118 |
Sporting Body Imprisoned in the Time-Machine | p. 125 |
A body built on pain | p. 125 |
Speed, suffering and sublimation in sport | p. 131 |
The sporting body of Australia | p. 136 |
Cyborg: The Body-Machine of the Civilian-Soldier | p. 140 |
Cybernetics and cyborgs | p. 140 |
Symbiosis and symbionts | p. 148 |
Taoist Body of the Earth | p. 157 |
Taoism | p. 158 |
Picture of internals | p. 161 |
Taijiquan | p. 164 |
Health recovery stories | p. 167 |
Healthy Land, Healthy Body: State of the Environment, State of Health | p. 173 |
Soil conservation | p. 174 |
Taoist ecology | p. 178 |
The body of the earth with organs and the body of Australia | p. 185 |
References | p. 191 |
Index | p. 203 |
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