Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative.
Gender is an exciting area of current research in the medical humanities, and by combining the study of medical narratives with theories of gender and sexuality, the essays in Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative illustrate the power of gender stereotypes to shape the way medicine is practiced a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Gender is an exciting area of current research in the medical humanities, and by combining the study of medical narratives with theories of gender and sexuality, the essays in Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative illustrate the power of gender stereotypes to shape the way medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters of Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative investigate gendered perceptions and representations of healers and patients in fiction, memoir, popular literature, poetry, f ... |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (487 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781443822930 1443822930 9781443822305 1443822302 9786612776571 6612776579 1282776576 9781282776579 |