National Healths
Subtitle: Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context
By: Edited by Michael Worton & Nana Wilson-Tagoe
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: September 10, 2004
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Gender Studies; Multicultural studies; Personal & public health; Medical anthropology; Social Science; Sociology; General; Diseases; Anthropology - Cultural; Cross-cultural studies; Health
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: v; label: Contributors
pagenum: vi; label: List of illustrations
pagenum: x; label: Introduction
pagenum: 1
title: Michael Worton; label: Overview
pagenum: 21
title: Nana Wilson-Tagoe; title: The Politics of Sickness and Health
label: Part I; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 31
title: Female Genital Mutilation: Contesting the Right to Speak of Women's Bodies in Africa and the West, Nahid Toubia; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 45
title: Albanian Masculinities, Sex-Work and Migration: Homosexuality, AIDS and Other Moral Threats, Nicola Mai; label: Chapter 3
pagenum: 59
title: The Semantics and Politics of Childbearing and Motherhood in Contemporary African Literature, Nana Wilson-Tagoe; label: Chapter 4
pagenum: 71
title: What Difference Did Empire Make? Sex, Gender and Sanitary Reform in the British Empire, Philippa Levine; label: Chapter 5
pagenum: 83
title: Dangerous Blood: Menstruation, Medicine and Myth in Early Modern England, Margaret Healy; title: The Representation of Sickness and Health
label: Part II; label: Chapter 6
pagenum: 97
title: Remembrance of Health Lost: Dis/Figuring Africa in European AIDS Writing, James N. Agar; label: Chapter 7
pagenum: 109
title: Vulnerable Margins: The Iconography of Blood, Dirt and Disease in the Early Twentieth-Century South African Settler Novel, Lynda Morgan; label: Chapter 8
pagenum: 121
title: Sex in a Hot Climate: Moral Degeneracy and Erotic Excess in The Story Of Jan Daraa, Rachel Harrison; label: Chapter 9
pagenum: 137
title: Some Fundamental Riddles of Cholera: Sex, Sodomy and Representation of the Fundament, George S. Rousseau; label: Chapter 10
pagenum: 151
title: Behold the (Sick) Man, Michael Worton; title: Learning from Sickness and Health
label: Part III; label: Chapter 11
pagenum: 169
title: Infectious Social Change: Tuberculosis and Exile among Tibetan Refugees in Dharamsala, Audrey Prost; label: Chapter 12
pagenum: 179
title: Angry Women and the Evolution of Chinese Medicine, Shigehisa Kuriyama; label: Chapter 13
pagenum: 191
title: Reading Gender in Ancient Egyptian Healing Papyri, Stephen Quirke; label: Chapter 14
pagenum: 201
title: Rene and the 'Mal du Siecle': A Literary Role Model for the Negotiation of Problematic Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe - The Cases of Custine and Amiel, Caroline Warman; label: Chapter 15
pagenum: 211
title: Poetry, Pictures and the Sexual Demographics of Health, Deborah Kirklin; label: Index
pagenum: 221