Body Fluids and Fluid Bodies: Trans-Corporeal Connections in Contemporary German Narratives of Illness
Medicine uses body fluids for the construction of medical knowledge in the laboratory and at the same time considers them as potentially infectious or dirty. In this model, bodies are in constant need of hygienic discipline if they are to adhere to the ideal of the closed and clean organism without...
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MDPI AG
2019-03-01
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| Series: | Humanities |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/1/55 |