Gender scripts in medicine and narrative
By: edited by Marcelline Block and Angela Laflen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars; Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9781443822305
Subjects: Sexism in medicine; Medicine in literature; Sex role in motion pictures; Medicine in motion pictures; Sex role in literature; Social medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Rita Charon; title: Poetry, hysteria and "the complexities of narrative creation" in literature and medicine / Marcelline Block; title: Gender at the intersections of medicine and narrative / Angela Laflen; title: "See what is beneath your clothes" : the spectacle of public female dissections in early modern Europe / Janine Larmon Peterson; title: Medical masculinity and sleeping beauties : identity and sexuality in Henri Gervex's Avant l'opération / Mary Hunter; title: Illness and inoculation : narrative strategies in Frances Burney's Camilla / Rebecca Garden; title: Aesthetics of female illness and death in Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia and Maurice Blanchot;s L'arrêt de mort / Marcelline Block; title: "That means children to me" : the birth control movement in Nella Larsen's Quicksand / Layne Parish Craig; title: (Re)conceiving the surrogate : maternity, race, and reproductive technologies in Alfonso Cuar̤ón's Children of men / Sayantani DasGupta; title: Writing to heal : narrating trauma in the writings of World War I nurses / Lea M. Williams; title: Recognizing the trauma : battering and the discourse of domestic violence / Lisa DeTora; title: Surgical stories, gendered telling : cosmetic surgery through the perspective of patients and surgeons / Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst; title: When Remedia Amoris fails : Chaucer's literary-medical exploration of determinism, materialism, and free will in Troilus and Criseyde / James M. Palmer; title: Tranquilizing the caveman : miltown and manhood in the Cold War era / David Herzberg; title: Masculinity and medicine : House as doctor and patient in House M.D. / Alissa Burger; title: Exposing men : medical imaging and the paradox of invisibility in White noise and "My mammogram" / Angela Laflen; title: "HIV my darling : Israeli gay men reclaiming heteronormative cultural scripts in the shadows of AIDS / Shirly Bar-Lev, Efrat Tillinger.