Publisher's Synopsis
This volume discusses why biological processes, desire and the passion for physical exposure occupy such a large place in people's lives in the late-1990's. The authors describe people in different phases of life: childless couples at the IVF clinic; fathers in the delivery ward; teenage girls and social services in an investigation of a lurid sex scandal.;The essays also look at manual workers and directors' wives, anorexic and bulimic girls, patients in a geriatric clinic and corpses on the autopsy table.
