Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-338) and index.
Bodies in history, the task of the historian / Ivan Crozier -- Death and birth / Malcolm Nicolson -- Performing the Western sexual body after 1920 / Ivan Crozier -- The technological fix and the modern body : surgery as a paradigmatic case / Thomas Schlich -- Diseased bodies in the modern world / Anna Crozier -- Popular beliefs / Dan O'Connor -- Beauty and concepts of the ideal / Christopher E. Forth -- Re-markable bodies / Anna Cole and Anna Haebich -- Body marks (bestial/divine/natural) : an essay into the social and biotechnological imaginaries, 1920-2005 and bodies to come / Michael M.J. Fischer -- Dissolution, reconstruction, and reaction in visual art, 1920 to the present / Ana Carden-Coyne -- The history of the body : self and society, 1920-2000 / D.M. Vyleta.