National Healths : Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context.

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In today's globalised world, it is increasingly important to understand the otherness of different societies and their beliefs, histories and practices. This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Worton, Michael
Otros Autores: Wilson Tagoe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Temas:
Medical anthropology.
Diseases > Cross-cultural studies.
Health > Cross-cultural studies.
Sex > Health aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
Body image.
Maladies > Études transculturelles.
Santé > Études transculturelles.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Image du corps.
Body image
Diseases
Health
Human body > Social aspects
Medical anthropology
Sex > Health aspects
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Acknowledgements; Contributors; List of illustrations; Table of contents; Introduction; Overview; Part I THE POLITICS OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH; Chapter 1 Female Genital Mutilation: Contesting the Right to Speak of Women's Bodies in Africa and the West; Chapter 2 Albanian Masculinities, Sex-Work and Migration: Homosexuality, AIDS and Other Moral Threats; Chapter 3 The Semantics and Politics of Childbearing and Motherhood in Contemporary African Literature; Chapter 4 What Difference Did Empire Make? Sex, Gender and Sanitary Reform in the British Empire.
  • Chapter 5 Dangerous Blood: Menstruation, Medicine and Myth in Early Modern EnglandPart II THE REPRESENTATION OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH; Chapter 6 Remembrance of Health Lost: Dis/Figuring Africa in European AIDS Writing; Chapter 7 Vulnerable Margins: The Iconography of Blood, Dirt and Disease in the Early Twentieth-Century South African Settler Novel; Chapter 8 Sex in a Hot Climate: Moral Degeneracy and Erotic Excess in The Story Of Jan Daraa; Chapter 9 Some Fundamental Riddles of Cholera: Sex, Sodomy and Representations of the Fundament; Chapter 10 Behold the (Sick) Man.
  • Part III LEARNING FROM SICKNESS AND HEALTHChapter 11 Infectious Social Change: Tuberculosis and Exile among Tibetan Refugees in Dharamsala; Chapter 12 Angry Women and the Evolution of Chinese Medicine; Chapter 13 Reading Gender in Ancient Egyptian Healing Papyri; Chapter 14 René and the 'Mal du Siècle': A Literary Role Model for the Negotiation of Problematic Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe
  • The Cases of Custine and Amiel; Chapter 15 Poetry, Pictures and the Sexual Demographics of Health; Index.

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