ABSTRACT
The double heritage of this collection of essays, as a product of the conversations at the four VariAbilities conferences and as the initiator of the series Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics, is explained in terms of the co-terminal ideas that bodies are inter-defining and contextual, and that the sciences and the humanities (in this book: medicine, impairment, literature, history, sculpture, politics archaeology, performance and anthropology) must be reconnected, with the aspiration that we just might be able to understand more clearly our human condition on this ever changing world.
