National healths : gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultural context / / edited by Michael Worton and Nana Wilson-Tagoe

• Pubblicazione: London : , : UCL Press, , 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/61
• Soggetto topico: Medical anthropology; Diseases; Health; Sex - Health aspects; Human body - Social aspects; Body image
• Altri autori: Wilson-TagoeNana WortonMichael <1951->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: <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 together
• Titolo autorizzato: National healths
• ISBN: 1-134-05693-1; 1-134-05686-9; 1-315-06660-2; 1-84314-775-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817769503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II