This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture

This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture

2016 • 305 pages

With wit, insight, and earthy wisdom, a book that explores the nature of the self, the relationship between the brain and the heart, the gendering of our physical and emotional selves, and the struggle to accommodate mind and body, emotions and experience.

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