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9780393239881

Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393239881

  • ISBN10:

    0393239888

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2013-06-17
  • Publisher: W W NORTON

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Summary

In an engaging narrative that sweeps from ancient body art to plastic surgery today, Hugh Aldersey-Williams brings his entertaining blend of science, history, and culture to bear on the richest of subjects: the human body. Why are some people left-handed and some blue-eyed? What is the funny bone, anyway? Drawing on cultural references from Shakespeare to Frankenstein, Rembrandt to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Aldersey-Williams reveals how attitudes toward the human body are as varied as human history, as he explores tattooing, shrunken heads, bloodletting, fingerprinting, X-rays, and more. Adam's rib, van Gogh's ear, Einstein's brain: Anatomies is a treasure trove of surprising facts and stories and a wonderful embodiment of what Aristotle wrote more than two millennia ago: "The human body is more than the sum of its parts."

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