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1 online resource (487 pages) |
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| Summary |
Gender is an exciting area of current research in the medical humanities, and by combining the study of medical narratives with theories of gender and sexuality, the essays in Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative illustrate the power of gender stereotypes to shape the way medicine is practiced and perceived. The chapters of Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative investigate gendered perceptions and representations of healers and patients in fiction, memoir, popular literature, poetry, f ... |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface / Rita Charon -- Poetry, hysteria and "the complexities of narrative creation" in literature and medicine / Marcelline Block -- Gender at the intersections of medicine and narrative / Angela Laflen -- "See what is beneath your clothes" : the spectacle of public female dissections in early modern Europe / Janine Larmon Peterson -- Medical masculinity and sleeping beauties : identity and sexuality in Henri Gervex's Avant l'opération / Mary Hunter -- Illness and inoculation : narrative strategies in Frances Burney's Camilla / Rebecca Garden -- Aesthetics of female illness and death in Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia and Maurice Blanchot;s L'arrêt de mort / Marcelline Block -- "That means children to me" : the birth control movement in Nella Larsen's Quicksand / Layne Parish Craig -- (Re)conceiving the surrogate : maternity, race, and reproductive technologies in Alfonso Cuar̤ón's Children of men / Sayantani DasGupta -- Writing to heal : narrating trauma in the writings of World War I nurses / Lea M. Williams -- Recognizing the trauma : battering and the discourse of domestic violence / Lisa DeTora -- Surgical stories, gendered telling : cosmetic surgery through the perspective of patients and surgeons / Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst -- When Remedia Amoris fails : Chaucer's literary-medical exploration of determinism, materialism, and free will in Troilus and Criseyde / James M. Palmer -- Tranquilizing the caveman : miltown and manhood in the Cold War era / David Herzberg -- Masculinity and medicine : House as doctor and patient in House M.D. / Alissa Burger -- Exposing men : medical imaging and the paradox of invisibility in White noise and "My mammogram" / Angela Laflen -- "HIV my darling : Israeli gay men reclaiming heteronormative cultural scripts in the shadows of AIDS / Shirly Bar-Lev, Efrat Tillinger. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Medicine in literature.
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Medicine in literature. |
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Medicine in motion pictures.
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Medicine in motion pictures. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures. |
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Social medicine.
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Social medicine. |
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Sexism in medicine.
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Sexism in medicine. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Laflen, Angela.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Block, Marcelline. Gender Scripts in Medicine and Narrative. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2010 9781443822305 |
| ISBN |
9781443822930 (electronic book) |
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1443822930 (electronic book) |
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9781443822305 (hardback) |
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1443822302 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612776571 |
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