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Gender scripts in medicine and narrative / edited by Marcelline Block and Angela Laflen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine in literature.
- Medicine in motion pictures.
- Sex role in literature.
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Social medicine.
- Sexism in medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (487 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gender is an exciting area of current research in the medical humanities, and by combining the study of medical narratives with theories of gender and sexuality, the essays in Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative illustrate the power of gender stereotypes to shape the way medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters of Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative investigate gendered perceptions and representations of healers and patients in fiction, memoir, popular literature, poetry, f...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; LIST OF TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART IV; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-77657-6
- 9786612776571
- 1-4438-2293-0
- OCLC:
- 830168423
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