Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them

Cappello, Mary

ISBN 10: 1595587772 / ISBN 13: 9781595587770

Edité par New Press, 2012

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Synopsis :

A beguiling and deeply rewarding exploration of Philadelphia's Mutter Museum Foreign Body Collection, drawers filled with items that have been swallowed. It is also a quirky portrait of Dr Chevalier Jackson, the pioneering laryngologist who extracted these items non-surgically. Animating the space between interest and terror, curiosity and dread, Capello explores the physiology of the human swallow, the poignant and psychology that compels people to ingest non-nutritive items. A history of racism, violence, class and poverty and forced ingestion.

À propos de l'auteur: Mary Cappello is the author of Awkward (a Los Angeles Times bestseller), Called Back, and Night Bloom. A recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, the Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination, and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize, she teaches at the University of Rhode Island and lives in Providence.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, ...
Éditeur : New Press
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : As New
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket