Abjectly Boundless

Trudy Rudge is a professor in the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sydney, Australia. Dave Holmes is a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and University Research Chair in Forensic Nursing at the University of Ottawa, Canada

Contents: Foreword, Jeanne Randolph; Introduction - abjectly boundless: boundaries, bodies and health work, Trudy Rudge and Dave Holmes; Part I Fluids and Transgression of Boundaries: Blurring the boundaries: breastfeeding and maternal subjectivity, Virginia Schmied and Deborah Lupton; Menstruation and dene physical practices, Audrey Giles; 'What it means to see': reading gender in medical examinations of suicide, Katrina Jaworski; Fearing sex: toxic bodies, paranoia and the rise of technophilia, Dave Holmes and Cary Federman; Eroticizing the abject: understanding the role of skeeting in sexual practices, Patrick O'Byrne. Part II Abject Positioning: Spoiled identities: women's experiences after mastectomy, Roanne Thomas-MacLean; 'Betwixt and between nothingness': abjection and blood stem cell transplantation, Beverleigh Quested; Managing the 'other' within the self: bodily experiences of HIV/AIDS, Marilou Gagnon; 'She exists within me': subjectivity, embodiment and the world's first facial transplant, Marc Lafrance; The abject body in requests for assisted death: symptomatic, dependent, shameful and temporal, Annette Street and David Kissane; Losing Private Kovko: when military masculinity goes SNAFU, Jackie Cook. Part III Containment of Bodies: Strange yet compelling: anxiety and abjection in hospital nursing, Alicia Evans; Subjectivity and embodiment: acknowledging abjection in nursing, Janet McCabe; Encountering the other: nursing, dementia care and the self, Dave Holmes, Sylvie Lauzon and Marilou Gagnon; Dirty nursing: containing defilement and infection control practices, Allison Roderick; Regaining skin: wounds, dressings and the containment of abjection, Trudy Rudge; Conclusion - defacing horror, realigning nurses, Joanna Latimer; Index.