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Body Utopianism Prosthetic Being Between Enhancement and Estrangement
This book investigates how desires to transform our bodies can bring utopia to the present, and how utopian practices often lead to distinctly...
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The Prolongatio Vitae and the Resurrection Body
This chapter concerns the role of the Franciscan order in Bacon’s understanding of the ability of alchemy to supplement medicine. Bacon was unique in...
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Beautifying Body Modification
Expressions of the desire for beauty are common in both older and newer utopianisms. In a significantly visual culture, all visible parts of the body...
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Impossible Body Escapes
This chapter lays out how the contemporary embodied acts that are examined throughout the book are entangled with concepts of the body that in...
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Omi: Water in Comparison to the Black Female Body
The Black female body as a retrospective site of ecology holds an intimate connection to nurturing kinship of water to the Earth. Black women are the...
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The Legislative Body
All the discussions presented until now have had the same final aim, to organize a Republic that guaranteed the sovereignty of the people and the...
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Medicines and Their Effects on the Body
This chapter focuses on the different types of medicines that Bacon believed could extend human life. Bacon’s medicines can be organized into three...
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Private Body: Kitchen Gossip and Bedroom Whispers
The chapter is devoted to the medial aspects of the Soviet body politics between 1917 and 1941. The Bolshevik revolution declared the end of the “old...
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‘Nature is More Subtle Than Any Mathematician’: Giorgio Baglivi on Fluids in the Human Body
A very common view describes iatromechanism—which seeks to explain every bodily process, even pathology, on a purely mechanical basis—as opposed to...
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On Being a Body in Thomas More’s Utopia
My reading of Thomas More’s Utopia focuses on his portrayal of bodies and their actions in the text. I argue that this analytical approach brings to...
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Public Body (1): Popular Assemblies
Soviet interwar period witnessed the emergence of a new type of a highly politicized communication sphere that encompassed the whole of the public...
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Public Body (2): Mass Festivals
After the end of the Civil War the Soviet regime sought political legitimacy in the ceremonial mobilization of a large part of the population. Soviet...
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Medicine: Body Concepts of (In)Fertility
People with an unfulfilled desire to have children can be helped; that is the central message of the current discourse around (in)fertility. If...
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The Pulse Watch and the Physician’s Senses: John Floyer on the Quantification of the Body
In the late eighteenth century, the practice of measuring the pulse with a mechanical watch became the symbol of the search for...
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“The Human Body Should Be Investigated in All Its Details to the Most Precise Degree…”. Leibniz on the Quantification of Body in Medicine
Leibniz’s interest in medicine was not a professional one, as he acknowledged on several occasions. Nonetheless, it was not just an occasional one,...
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