ABSTRACT

Bodies of Information initiates the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by encompassing interdisciplinary Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including literary analysis, sociology, criminology, anthropology, osteology and cultural studies, to read a variety of types of artefacts, from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase Global Bioethics to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter’s founding vision from historical perspectives, and asks, how did we get here from then?

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

Bodies of Information

part I|24 pages

The Unknown Body

chapter 1|24 pages

Dis/ability in Roman Dorset

An Integrated Osteobiography Approach

chapter 3|13 pages

Hideous and Mutilated

The Wedded Body in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales

chapter 4|14 pages

Prosthetic Pomp

The Significance of Samuel Foote’s Amputation to His Performance in The Nabob

part II|20 pages

The General Body

chapter 5|20 pages

Violence and the Marked Body

(In)Visible Trauma in London During the Long Eighteenth Century

chapter 6|13 pages

Teacher of Right

Rousseau at the Limits of the State

chapter 7|18 pages

A “Profession” of Apology

Criminal Doctors or Medical Negligence and the Fuzzy Boundaries of Justice

chapter 8|17 pages

Precarious Health

Thomas Beddoes’ Pneumatic Therapy

part III|19 pages

The Particular Body

chapter 9|19 pages

The Spector of the Singular Body in Frankenstein

Difference and Reparation

chapter 10|15 pages

The Infinite Variety of La Casati

chapter 11|15 pages

“The Vagabond Venus”

Cesare Lombroso Colonizes Tattoos