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Editor's note.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... Editors' note. How do biological bodies become culturally expressive? This question, at the heart of the nature/nurture divide, has long been viewed differently by scientists and cultural constructivists: from the one viewpoint, the belief...
Refashioning race: DNA and the politics of health care.
September 22, 2004... "For Sale: A DNA Test to Measure Racial Mix" --Wade F4
"Shouldn't a Pill be Colorblind?" --Stolberg 1
"I Am a Racially Profiling Doctor" --Satel 56
"Does Race Exist?" --Bamshad and Olson 78
Something is happening to race....
Decoding race and human difference in a genomic age.
September 22, 2004... The last years of the twentieth century witnessed a surge in claims about the biological meaninglessness of race. On February 20, 1995, the LA Times headlined "Scientists Say Race Has No Biological Basis" (Hotz A1). Two weeks later, the...
Gut feminism.
September 22, 2004... Hysteria behaves as though anatomy did not exist or as though it had no knowledge of it.
--Freud, "Some Points" 169
The stomach and the bowel play puppet games with their own walls and contents, instead of digesting and excreting...
The Bodily Ego and the Contested Domain of the Material.(transgenderism)
September 22, 2004... Every body contains in itself a phantom (perhaps the body itself is a phantom).
--Schilder 297
Of what use might psychoanalytic theory be to those of us trying to bring attention to transgenderism within contemporary discussions of...
Visions of anatomy: exhibitions and dense bodies.(two art exhibitions exploring the relationship between art and science)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2004... The jumping, modulating lines of heart and brain monitors abound in medical dramas. In them, life is translated: from a living, breathing body into a visual representation. Contemporary popular culture is fascinated with medical machines and...