One of Us Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal

Name: One of Us Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal
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ISBN: 9780674018259

ISBN-10: 0674018257

ISBN-13: 9780674018259

Edition: 2004

Authors: Alice Domurat Dreger

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Must children born with socially challenging anatomies have their bodies changed because others cannot be expected to change their minds? "One of Us views conjoined twinning and other "abnormalities" from the point of view of people living with such anatomies, and considers these issues within the larger historical context of anatomical politics. Anatomy matters, Alice Domurat Dreger tells us, because the senses we possess, the muscles we control, and the resources we require to keep our bodies alive limit and guide what we experience in any given context. Her deeply thought-provoking and compassionate work exposes the breadth and depth of that context--the extent of the social frame upon…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Alice Domurat Dreger is Visiting Associate Professor in Medical Humanities and Bioethics in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and Director of Medical Education at the Intersex Society of North America.



Introduction



The Limits of Individuality



Split Decisions



What Sacrifice



Freeing the Irish Giant



The Future of Anatomy


Notes


Acknowledgments


Credits


Index


Illustrations



Eng and Chang Bunker as young men



The Bunker twins with two of their sons



Types of conjoinment



Laloo and his parasitic twin



Abigail and Brittany Hensel at play in the family home



Chang and Eng Bunker engaged in various pursuits



Lin and Win Htut before separation



Cover of AORN Journal, January 1982



The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal



Charles Byrne with two other giants and several people with dwarfism



Advertising pamphlet for Millie




Crouching Figure with Visible Skeleton