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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson-Tagoe, Nana.

Worton, Michael, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology.

Diseases--Cross-cultural studies.

Diseases.

Health--Cross-cultural studies.

Health.

Sex--Health aspects.

Sex.

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Body image.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-05693-1

1-134-05686-9

1-315-06660-2

1-84314-775-0

9781315066608

OCLC:

852755887