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'Phantom limb pain' designates the sensations which seem to emanate from limbs that in reality are missing. The phrase was coined by the American Civil War surgeon, Weir Mitchell, in reference to his fictional amputee, George Dedlow. Contemporary neuroscience holds that the brain encloses a schema which covers the whole body, and asserts its unity even if certain parts are missing. Reading backwards from Dedlow's sufferings, Alastair Minnis traces the medieval precedents and parallels, focusing on Augustine and Dante, who subscribed to the notion of a 'body in the soul'. Dante's souls in purgatory self-prosthesize with aerial phantoms as they long for the full embodiment which only the resurrection can bring. Is a complete body necessary for personhood? And how can the gamut of human feelings be run if parts or the entirety of one's body does not exist? Combining medieval studies and contemporary neuroscience, this absorbing study explores the fascinating and surprising history of phantom pain.
Human body in literature. --- Phantom limb --- Limb, Phantom --- Limbs, Phantom --- Phantom limb pain --- Phantom limbs --- Phantom pain --- Amputees --- Body schema --- Pain --- Perceptual disorders --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History. --- Psychology
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Comics and other graphic narratives powerfully represent embodied experiences that are difficult to express in language. A group of authors from various countries and disciplines explore the unique capacity of graphic narratives to represent human embodiment as well as the relation of human bodies to the worlds they inhabit. Using works from illustrated scientific texts to contemporary comics across national traditions, we discover how the graphic narrative can shed new light on everyday experiences. Essays examine topics that are easily recognized as anchored in the body as well as experiences like migration and concepts like environmental degradation and compassion that emanate from or impact on our embodied states. 'Graphic Embodiments' is of interest to scholars and students across various interdisciplinary fields including comics studies, gender and sexuality studies, visual and cultural studies, disability studies and health and medical humanities.
Graphic novels --- Human beings in literature --- Human body in literature --- Health in literature --- 82-931 --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- 82-931 Stripverhaal --- Stripverhaal --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Man in literature --- History and criticism --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Graphic arts --- graphic arts --- human figures [visual works] --- comics [documents] --- History and criticism. --- Human beings in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Health in literature.
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