An edition of National healths
(2004)
National healths
gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultural context
by Michael Worton and Nana Wilson-Tagoe
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Body image, Diseases, Social aspects, Sex, Cross-cultural studies, Health, Health aspects, Human Body, Medical anthropology, Human body, Human body, social aspects, Ethnology, Medicine in literature, Cultural Anthropology, Medicine in Literature, Medicine in the Arts, Sexual Behavior, Body Image, Maladies, Études transculturelles, Santé, Corps humain, Aspect social, Image du corps, Ethnologie, Médecine dans la littérature, Social anthropology, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, Cultural Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, Cultural, Popular Culture, Geschlechtsunterschied, Gesundheit, Gesundheitsverhalten, Kulturvergleich, Sexualverhalten, Medische antropologie, Gezondheid, Seksualiteit, Menselijk lichaam| Edition | Availability |
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National healths: gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultural context
2004, UCL, Cavendish Pub.
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NATIONAL HEALTHS: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND HEALTH IN A CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXT; ED. BY MICHAEL WORTON.
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Table of Contents
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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