ISBN:
9781134056866
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1134056869
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 232 pages, [6] pages of plates)
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illustrations (some color)
Parallel Title:
Print version National healths
DDC:
306.4/61
Keywords:
Diseases Cross-cultural studies
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Health Cross-cultural studies
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Sex Health aspects
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Human body Social aspects
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Medical anthropology
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Body image
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Health Cross-cultural studies
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Sex Health aspects
;
Human body Social aspects
;
Diseases Cross-cultural studies
;
Medical anthropology
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Diseases Cross-cultural studies
;
Health Cross-cultural studies
;
Sex Health aspects
;
Human body Social aspects
;
Body image
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Anthropology, Cultural
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Medicine in Literature
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Human Body
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Medicine in Art
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Sexual Behavior
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Gezondheid
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Medische antropologie
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Menselijk lichaam
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Seksualiteit
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Diseases
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Health
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Human body ; Social aspects
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Medical anthropology
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Sex ; Health aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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Body image
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Geschlechtsunterschied
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Gesundheit
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Gesundheitsverhalten
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Kulturvergleich
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Sexualverhalten
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Cross-cultural studies
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books Cross-cultural studies
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"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 healthcare. Starting from the premise that health is neither a universal nor a unitary concept, it offers a series of interdisciplinary analyses of what sickness and well-being have been, are and can be." "The originality of this book is its cross-cultural and trans-historical approach. Bringing together specially commissioned work by both major critical voices and young scholars in fields ranging from anthropology and art history to philosophy, political science and sociology, this volume challenges many traditional assumptions about gender, medicine and healthcare." "The wide-ranging introduction provides a historical and theoretical framework for what is defined here as Cultural Medicine, whilst 15 original essays demonstrate from different perspectives that health is not merely a physiological and medical issue, but also a cultural and ethical one." "This book will be of interest to the general reader as well as to students of all levels, to teachers of a wide range of disciplines, and to specialist researchers of cultural studies and of medicine."--BOOK JACKET
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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PART I: THE POLITICS OF SICKNESS AND HEALTHFemale genital mutilation: contesting the right to speak of women's bodies in Africa and the West
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Albanian masculinities, sex-work and migration: homosexuality, AIDS and other moral threats
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The semantics and politics of childbearing and motherhood in contemporary African literature
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What difference did empire make? Sex, gender and sanitary reform in the British Empire
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Dangerous blood: mensturation, medicine and myth in early modern England
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PART II: THE REPRESENTATION OF SICKNESS AND HEALTHRemembrance of health lost: dis/figuring Africa in European AIDS writing
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Vulnerable margins: the iconography of blood, dirt and disease in the early twentieth-century South African settler novel
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Sex in a hot climate: moral degeneracy and erotic excess in The story of Jan Daraa
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Some fundamental riddles of cholera: sex, sodomy and representations of the fundament
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Behold the (sick) man
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PART III: LEARNING FROM SICKNESS AND HEALTHInfectious social change: tuberculosis and exile among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala
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Angry women and the evolution of Chinese medicine
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Reading gender in ancient Egyptian healing Papyri
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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
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Poetry, pictures and the sexual demographics of health
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