04440oam 2200733I 450 991081776950332120240410062136.01-134-05693-11-134-05686-91-315-06660-21-84314-775-010.4324/9781315066608 (CKB)2670000000392203(EBL)219967(OCoLC)852755887(SSID)ssj0000918429(PQKBManifestationID)12401881(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000918429(PQKBWorkID)10906880(PQKB)11429060(MiAaPQ)EBC219967(Au-PeEL)EBL219967(CaPaEBR)ebr10729474(CaONFJC)MIL504269(OCoLC)852899205(EXLCZ)99267000000039220320180706d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNational healths gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultural context /edited by Michael Worton and Nana Wilson-Tagoe1st ed.London :UCL Press,2004.1 online resource (253 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-16692-8 1-84472-017-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.<P>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.</P><P>The originality of this book is its cross-cultural and trans-historical approach. Bringing togetherMedical anthropologyDiseasesCross-cultural studiesHealthCross-cultural studiesSexHealth aspectsHuman bodySocial aspectsBody imageMedical anthropology.DiseasesHealthSexHealth aspects.Human bodySocial aspects.Body image.306.4/61Wilson-Tagoe Nana676358Worton Michael1951-800736MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817769503321National healths3999626UNINA