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Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures
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This collection responds to recent developments in Gender Medicine and the literary and cultural history of medicine. Bringing together scholars from Medical and Humanities departments, it uses case studies to investigate the gendered construction of disease from medieval times until today. The influence of gender on the creation of medical knowledge is now recognized within various branches of the medical field: genetic research, therapy, and investigations into biologically versus life style induced types of disease. In British and American literary and cultural studies, the narrative, dramatic and cinematic representation of diseases and medical knowledge and practice, as well as the cultural history of gender-specific diseases, have long been a thriving areas of research. The collection intervenes in these debates by reexamining gendered cultural patterns of representing or responding to disease, and the gender confusions that result when such patterns are disrupted.
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- Contents
- Preface: Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures
- Some Aspects of Medical Research on Sex and Gender Differences: Risky Lifestyle or Risky Genes?
- Krankheit als Heil? Genderperspektiven auf das Opferder Gesundheit in der Literatur des Mittelalters
- Soulless Animals? Some Renaissance Discussions Concerning Women’s Immaterial Parts
- Fashionable Disease and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century
- “Disastrous Birth-Nights”: Childbed and Child-Birth in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Reflections on Gender and Medicalization
- “The texture of her nerves and the palpitation of her heart”: Vocation, Hysteria, and the ‘Surplus Female’in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Medical Discourse
- “Killing no Murder”: Puerperal Insanity and Infanticidein Late-Victorian British Literature
- Of He-Nurses and She-Doctors: Gendered Accounts of Yellow Fever in Postbellum American Literature
- “You half-baked Lazarus”: Masculinity and the Maimed Bodyin Sean O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie
- Quantifying Desire, Qualifying Disease.Gendered Images of Sexual Addiction in Spanish Cinemaof Pedro Almodóvar, Julio Medem, and Valérie Tasso
- Gender and Medical Realism in the Poetry of Donald Hall
- Ein richtiger Indianer? Kranke Jungen in der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
- Picturing Disease (♂) – Performing Disease (♀)