"The way forward for Flesh "examines ways that "flesh" has been re-conceptualized in past due 20th- and early twenty-first centuries. Its twelve essays examine modern attitudes to corporeal swap as a result of soreness, demise, inventive experimentation or technological intervention, and spotlight present variations within the very definition of "flesh." Cross-disciplinary of their procedure, the essays during this assortment examine the boundaries, the politics and the ethics surrounding corporeal swap, and handle themes that variety from classical heroic our bodies, and breast melanoma images to cyberfiction.
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