Zone 5: Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 3

The third in this series, this volume "brings into play the classical opposition between organ and function by showing how a certain organ or bodily substance can be used to justify or challenge the way human society functions and, reciprocally, how a certain political or social function tends to make the body of the person filling that function the organ of a larger body--the social body or the universe as a whole."--the editor.