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National Healths - Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context (Paperback)
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National Healths - Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context (Paperback)
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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. The originality of this
book is its cross-cultural and trans-historical approach. Bringing
together specially commissioned work by both major critical voices
and young scholars in fields ranging from anthropology and art
history to philosophy, political science and sociology, this volume
challenges many traditional assumptions about gender, medicine and
health-care. Issues addressed include: the politics and realities
of female genital mutilation; sex-work and migration; the portrayal
of mothering in contemporary African writing; the representation of
AIDS in literature, photography and the media; the place of gender
in ancient Egyptian health papyri; the dramatisation of morality
and sexual over-indulgence in Thai literature; the relationship
between myths of menstruation and power in early modern England;
the role of anger in traditional Chinese medicine; and the ways in
which both disease and sexual identities were redefined by cholera
in the nineteenth century. The wide-ranging Introduction provides a
historical and theoretical framework for what is defined here as
Cultural Medicine, whilst fifteen original essays demonstrate from
different perspectives that health is not merely a physiological
and medical issue, but also a cultural and ethical one. An
invaluable research and study resource, this book is written in a
clear and accessible style and will be of interest to the general
reader as well as to students of all levels, to teachers of a wide
range of disciplines, and to specialist researchers of cultural
studies and of medicine.
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