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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 h...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Worton, Michael, 1951-, Wilson-Tagoe, Nana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Portland, Or. : UCL ; Cavendish Pub., 2004.
Temas:
Medical anthropology.
Diseases > Cross-cultural studies.
Health > Cross-cultural studies.
Sex > Health aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
Body image.
Ethnology.
Medicine in literature.
Anthropology, Cultural
Medicine in Literature
Human Body
Medicine in the Arts
Sexual Behavior
Body Image
Ethnology
Maladies > Études transculturelles.
Santé > Études transculturelles.
Corps humain > Aspect social.
Image du corps.
Ethnologie.
Médecine dans la littérature.
ethnology.
social anthropology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Diseases.
Health.
Geschlechtsunterschied
Gesundheit
Gesundheitsverhalten
Kulturvergleich
Sexualverhalten
Medische antropologie.
Gezondheid.
Seksualiteit.
Menselijk lichaam.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Cross-cultural studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART I: THE POLITICS OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH
  • Female genital mutilation: contesting the right to speak of women's bodies in Africa and the West / Nahid Toubia
  • Albanian masculinities, sex-work and migration: homosexuality, AIDS and other moral threats / Nicola Mai
  • The semantics and politics of childbearing and motherhood in contemporary African literature / Nana Wilson-Tagoe
  • What difference did empire make? Sex, gender and sanitary reform in the British Empire / Philippa Levine
  • Dangerous blood: mensturation, medicine and myth in early modern England / Margaret Healy
  • PART II: THE REPRESENTATION OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH
  • Remembrance of health lost: dis/figuring Africa in European AIDS writing / James N. Agar
  • Vulnerable margins: the iconography of blood, dirt and disease in the early twentieth-century South African settler novel / Lynda Morgan
  • Sex in a hot climate: moral degeneracy and erotic excess in The story of Jan Daraa / Rachel Harrison
  • Some fundamental riddles of cholera: sex, sodomy and representations of the fundament / George S. Rousseau
  • Behold the (sick) man / Michael Worton
  • PART III: LEARNING FROM SICKNESS AND HEALTH
  • Infectious social change: tuberculosis and exile among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala / Audrey Prost
  • Angry women and the evolution of Chinese medicine / Shigehisa Kuriyama
  • Reading gender in ancient Egyptian healing Papyri / Stephen Quirke
  • René and the 'Mal du Siècle': a literary role model for the negotiation of problematic sexual identity in nineteenth-century Europe
  • the case of Custine and Amiel / Caroline Warman
  • Poetry, pictures and the sexual demographics of health / Deborah Kirklin.

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