227 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
227 Pages
by
Routledge
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Diseases and Diagnoses discusses why such social problems as addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, racial predisposition for illness, surgery and beauty, and electrotherapy, all of which concerned thinkers a hundred years ago, are reappearing at a staggering rate and in diverse national contexts. In the twentieth century such problems were viewed as only historical concerns. Yet in the... Read more
Introduction: On Race, Sex, and Beauty in Historical Perspective 1. Race (Again) and Medicine (Again): The Jews and Alcoholism 2. What is the Color of the Gonorrhea Ribbon? Stigma, Sexual Diseases, and Popular Culture inthe Twenty-First Century 3. Nietzsche, Bizet, and Wagner—Illness, Health, and Race in the Nineteenth Century 4. Are You Just What You Eat? Ritual Slaughter and the Politics of National Identity 5. Imagining Glamour in the Age of Aesthetic Surgery 6. Sigmund Freud, Electrotherapy, and the Voice 7. Psychoanalysis, Medicine, and the Body in the Time of Freud and Brill 8. The Practical Aspect of Culture in Illness—Bilingualismin the World of Health and Illness Index
Biography
Sander L. Gilman
