Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices every day in hospitals, clinics, and laboratories. But how and when did they come to be established and accepted sources of knowledge about the body in medical culture? How are the specialized techniques and codes of these imaging techniques determined, and whose bodies are studied, diagnosed, and treated with th...(展开全部)

Traditionally the "Chinese body" was approached as a totality and explained by sweeping comparisons of the differences that distinguished Chinese examples from their Western counterparts. Recently, scholars have argued that we must look at particular examples of Chinese images of the body and explore their intrinsic conceptual complexity and historical specificity. The twelve...(展开全部)

View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.</P> "Building on the tradition of social commentators such as Gilbert Seldes, Robert Warshow, and Susan Sontag, Henry Jenkins brings his outstanding insight and compassionate counsel to contemporary cultural phenomena. Here not only media, but affect, matters. A delightful and helpful collection on popular pleasures." &#1...(展开全部)

This innovative collection of essays offers exciting new research and thoughtful reflection on the subject of visual culture and its relationship to art history. Brings together innovative scholarship by major scholars. Engages with cross-cultural questions, asking if attention to visual culture is a western preoccupation. Draws on a wide range of cultures, locations and hist...(展开全部)

'Once in a while a manuscript stops you in your tracks...What we are offered here is no recovering of old ground but a step change in perspectives on "body matters" that is both innovative and of fundamental importance to anyone working on this sociological terrain...This text is groundbreaking and simply has to be read' - Acta Sociologica 'this is Shilling at his creative be...(展开全部)

Medicine as Culture is unlike any other sociological text on health and medicine. For many lecturers and students the book has become a classic text, which combines perspectives drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, social history and cultural studies. The aim of the book is to tease out how medicine and health care are sociocultural constr...(展开全部)

In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives.

作者简介： 苏珊•鲍尔多，肯塔基大学教授，从事妇女研究工作，普利策奖获得者，主要著作还有《黎明地带》、《男性特质》等。

This is a wide-ranging and stimulating introduction to the history and theory of visual culture from painting to the computer and television screen. It will prove indispensable to students of art and art history as well as students of cultural studies. Mirzoeff begins by defining what visual culture is, and explores how and why visual media - fine art, cinema, the Internet, adv...(展开全部)

铃木忠志（Tadashi Suzuki） 当代世界级戏剧大师，剧坛最具影响力的导演、评论家和思想家之一。他以日本富山县利贺村为根据地创建了铃木利贺剧团（SCOT），一直担任剧团导演，是日本第一个国际性戏剧节“利贺国际戏剧节”发起人，更以独创的铃木演员训练法闻名于世。 早在1970年代初期，铃木忠志就在国际上奠定了前沿戏剧导演的地位，一直以来维持着旺盛的创作力。多年来，受邀到世界各地的戏剧学院和剧团亲自教授铃木方法，其中包括纽约茱莉亚音乐学院、莫斯科艺术剧院。 铃木忠志思考和阐述自己戏剧理念的著述丰富。学术和评论界历来对铃木的戏剧创作和理念十分关注，在剑桥大学出版社出版的“20世纪重要导演/戏剧家”丛书中，铃木忠志是与布莱希特、彼得•布鲁克等欧美戏剧名家共同入选的唯一亚洲戏剧家。 译者，李集庆 （Lee Chee Keng），中央戏剧学院导演系博士，...(展开全部)