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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Block, Marcelline[Herausgeber]

Titel

Gender scripts in medicine and narrative

Ort / Verlag

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

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• Inhaltsverzeichnis

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - 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 Ti++