Medicine, Psychology and Sociology
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Disobedient Bodies
For too long, beauty has been entangled in the forces of patriarchy and capitalism: objectification, shame, control, competition and consumerism. We need to find a way to do beauty differently. This radical, deeply personal and empowering essay points to ways we can all embrace our unruly beauty and enjoy our magnificent, disobedient bodies.
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Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature draws on a feminist critique of reason to argue that the master form of rationality of western culture has been systematically unable to acknowledge depending on nature, the sphere of those it has constituted as ‘inferior’ other. Because its knowledge of the world is systematically distorted b the elite…
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Buchanan’s Manual of Anatomy
Buchanan’s Manual of Anatomy, which first appeared in 1906, was designed as a guide to the structure of the human body as it is revealed in the process of dissection. It was written as a topographical or regional- as opposed to systematic- textbook of human anatomy and as such has been widely used by students…