Diseases & diagnoses : the second age of biology / Sander L. Gilman.

  • Gilman, Sander L.
Date:
[2010], ©2010
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Transaction Publishers, [2010], ©2010.

Physical description

227 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Race (again) and medicine (again) : the Jews and alcoholism -- What is the color of the gonorrhea ribbon? : stigma, sexual diseases, and popular culture in the twenty-first century -- Nietzsche, Bizet, and Wagner : illness, health, and race in the nineteenth century -- Are you just what you eat? : ritual slaughter and the politics of national identity -- Imagining glamour in the age of aesthetic surgery -- Sigmund Freud, electrotherapy, and the voice -- Psychoanalysis, medicine, and the body in the time of Freud and Brill -- The practical aspect of culture in illness : bilingualism in the world of health and illness.

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    F.U
    Open shelves

Permanent link

Identifiers

ISBN

  • 9781412810494
  • 1412810493