Introduction

Drew Leder

1-12

A tale of two bodies

the cartesian corpse and the lived body

Drew Leder

17-35

Why aren't more doctors phenomenologists?

Richard J. Baron

37-47

Foucault's political body in medical praxis

Carole Spitzack

51-68

On the body in medical self-care and holistic medicine

Anthony Weston

69-84

A confucian perspective on embodiment

Tu Wei-Ming

87-100

Parted bodies, departed souls

the body in ancient medicine and anatomy

Richard Zaner

101-122

The body in multiple sclerosis

a patient's perspective

Toombs

127-137

Psychosomatics, the lived body, and anthropological medicine

concerning a case of atopic dermatitis

Georg Northoff, Michael A. Schwartz, Michael A. Schwartz, Osborne P. Wiggins

139-154

The body with aids

a post-structuralist approach

Julien Murphy

155-176

Obesity, objectification, and identity

the encounter with the body as an object in obesity

Donald Moss

179-196

Eating disorders

the feminist challenge to the concept of pathology

Susan Bordo

197-213

Breasted experience

the look and the feeling

Iris M. Young

215-230

The body of the future

Eric J. Cassell

233-249