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Medical anthropology, Diseases, Health, Sex, Human body, social aspects, Body imageBook Details
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements.
Page v
Contributors.
Page vi
List of illustrations.
Page x
Introduction.
Michael Worton
Page 1
Overview.
Nana Wilson-Tagoe
Page 21
Part I.
The Politics of Sickness and Health
Chapter 1.
Female Genital Mutilation: Contesting the Right to Speak of Women's Bodies in Africa and the West, Nahid Toubia
Page 31
Chapter 2.
Albanian Masculinities, Sex-Work and Migration: Homosexuality, AIDS and Other Moral Threats, Nicola Mai
Page 45
Chapter 3.
The Semantics and Politics of Childbearing and Motherhood in Contemporary African Literature, Nana Wilson-Tagoe
Page 59
Chapter 4.
What Difference Did Empire Make? Sex, Gender and Sanitary Reform in the British Empire, Philippa Levine
Page 71
Chapter 5.
Dangerous Blood: Menstruation, Medicine and Myth in Early Modern England, Margaret Healy
Page 83
Part II.
The Representation of Sickness and Health
Chapter 6.
Remembrance of Health Lost: Dis/Figuring Africa in European AIDS Writing, James N. Agar
Page 97
Chapter 7.
Vulnerable Margins: The Iconography of Blood, Dirt and Disease in the Early Twentieth-Century South African Settler Novel, Lynda Morgan
Page 109
Chapter 8.
Sex in a Hot Climate: Moral Degeneracy and Erotic Excess in The Story Of Jan Daraa, Rachel Harrison
Page 121
Chapter 9.
Some Fundamental Riddles of Cholera: Sex, Sodomy and Representation of the Fundament, George S. Rousseau
Page 137
Chapter 10.
Behold the (Sick) Man, Michael Worton
Page 151
Part III.
Learning from Sickness and Health
Chapter 11.
Infectious Social Change: Tuberculosis and Exile among Tibetan Refugees in Dharamsala, Audrey Prost
Page 169
Chapter 12.
Angry Women and the Evolution of Chinese Medicine, Shigehisa Kuriyama
Page 179
Chapter 13.
Reading Gender in Ancient Egyptian Healing Papyri, Stephen Quirke
Page 191
Chapter 14.
Rene and the 'Mal du Siecle': A Literary Role Model for the Negotiation of Problematic Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe - The Cases of Custine and Amiel, Caroline Warman
Page 201
Chapter 15.
Poetry, Pictures and the Sexual Demographics of Health, Deborah Kirklin
Page 211
Index.
Page 221
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