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.
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.
Introduction Michael Worton; chapterover Overview Nana Wilson-Tagoe; Part 1 The Politics of Sickness and Health; Chapter 1 Female Genital Mutilation Nahid Toubia; Chapter 2 Albanian Masculinities Sex-Work and Migration Nicola Mai; Chapter 3 The Semantics and Politics of Childbearing and Motherhood in Contemporary African Literature Nana Wilson-Tagoe; Chapter 4 1This essay owes much to the research undertaken in the writing of Prostitution Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (2003). Fuller versions of the arguments made here can be found in that volume. Philippa Levine; Chapter 5 Dangerous Blood Margaret Healy; Part 2 The Representation of Sickness and Health; Chapter 6 Remembrance of Health Lost James N Agar; Chapter 7 Vulnerable Margins Lynda Morgan; Chapter 8 Sex in a Hot Climate Rachel Harrison; Chapter 9 Some Fundamental Riddles of Cholera George S Rousseau; Chapter 10 Behold the (Sick) Man Michael Worton; Part 3 Learning from Sickness and Health; Chapter 11 Infectious Social Change Audrey Prost; Chapter 12 1Grateful acknowledgment is due to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation which supported the research for this chapter and to Dr Li Jianmin from whose help and advice I have benefited in countless ways. Shigehisa Kuriyama; Chapter 13 Reading Gender in Ancient Egyptian Healing Papyri Stephen Quirke; Chapter 14 René and the 'Mal du Siècle' Caroline Warman; Chapter 15 Poetry Pictures and the Sexual Demographics of Health Deborah Kirklin;
Introduction Michael Worton; chapterover Overview Nana Wilson-Tagoe; Part 1 The Politics of Sickness and Health; Chapter 1 Female Genital Mutilation Nahid Toubia; Chapter 2 Albanian Masculinities Sex-Work and Migration Nicola Mai; Chapter 3 The Semantics and Politics of Childbearing and Motherhood in Contemporary African Literature Nana Wilson-Tagoe; Chapter 4 1This essay owes much to the research undertaken in the writing of Prostitution Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (2003). Fuller versions of the arguments made here can be found in that volume. Philippa Levine; Chapter 5 Dangerous Blood Margaret Healy; Part 2 The Representation of Sickness and Health; Chapter 6 Remembrance of Health Lost James N Agar; Chapter 7 Vulnerable Margins Lynda Morgan; Chapter 8 Sex in a Hot Climate Rachel Harrison; Chapter 9 Some Fundamental Riddles of Cholera George S Rousseau; Chapter 10 Behold the (Sick) Man Michael Worton; Part 3 Learning from Sickness and Health; Chapter 11 Infectious Social Change Audrey Prost; Chapter 12 1Grateful acknowledgment is due to the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation which supported the research for this chapter and to Dr Li Jianmin from whose help and advice I have benefited in countless ways. Shigehisa Kuriyama; Chapter 13 Reading Gender in Ancient Egyptian Healing Papyri Stephen Quirke; Chapter 14 René and the 'Mal du Siècle' Caroline Warman; Chapter 15 Poetry Pictures and the Sexual Demographics of Health Deborah Kirklin;
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