The Body Fantastic - by Frank Gonzalez-Crussi (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"An original view of human corporeality linking myths, legends, and fables with biomedical concepts about some bodily parts"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The body in dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the fantastic as expressions of human corporeality.</b> <p/>In <i>The Body Fantastic</i>, Frank Gonzalez-Crussi looks at the human body through the lens of dreams, myths, legends, and anecdotes of the bizarre, exploring the close connection of the fictitious and the fabulous to our conception of the body. He chronicles, among other curious cases, the man who ate everything (including boiled hedgehogs and mice on toast), the therapeutic powers of saliva, hair that burst into flames, and an amphibian man who lived under water. Drawing on clinical records, popular lore, and art, history, and literature, Gonzalez-Crussi considers the body in both real and imaginary dimensions. <p/> Myths and stories, Gonzalez-Crussi reminds us, are the symbolic expression of our aspirations and emotions. These fantastic tales of bodies come from the deepest regions of the human psyche. Ancient Greeks, for example, believed that the uterus wandered around inside a woman's body--an animal within an animal. If a woman sniffed an unpleasant odor, the uterus would retreat. Organized digestive excess began with the eating and drinking contests of antiquity and continue through the hot-dog eating competitions of today. And the libido-podalic association, connecting male sexuality and the foot, insinuated itself into mainstream medicine in the sixteenth century; meanwhile, the feet of women in some cultures were scrupulously kept from view. Gonzalez-Crussi shows that the many imaginary representations of the body are very much a part of our corporeality.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Playful, erudite, expansive, the book gives one much to chew on, widening our understanding of our corporeal selves, as well as how that understanding has shifted and evolved over time. '<br><b><i>--The Boston Globe<br></i></b><i><br>I cannot recommend this book enough . . . I guarantee that the book will contain information you've not read before, and that it will fascinate and delight any new reader.</i> <b><i><br><b><i>-- The Folklore Podcast website</i></b><br></i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Frank Gonzalez-Crussi is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology of Northwestern University Medical School. He is the author of <i>On Seeing: Things Seen, Unseen and Obscene</i>, <i>Carrying the Heart</i>, and other books.
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