National healths :  gender, sexuality and health in a cross-cultur al context / 
edited by Michael Worton and Nana Wilson-Tagoe. 
 - London :   Portland, Or. :  UCL ;  Cavendish Pub.,  2004. 
 - xii, 232 p., [6] p. of plates :  ill. (some col.) ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>  Female genital mut ilation: contesting the right to speak of women's bodies in Africa and the West /   Albanian masculinities, sex-work and m igration: homosexuality, AIDS and other moral threats /   The semantics and politics of childbearing and motherhood in conte mporary African literature /   What difference did empire make? Sex, gender and sanitary reform in the British Empire /   Dangerous blood: mensturation, medicine and myth in early modern England /   Remembrance of health lost: d is/figuring Africa in European AIDS writing /   Vu lnerable margins: the iconography of blood, dirt and disease in the ear ly twentieth-century South African settler novel /   Sex in a hot climate: moral degeneracy and erotic excess in The sto ry of Jan Daraa /   Some fundamental riddles of cholera: sex, sodomy and representations of the fundament /   Behold the (sick) man /   Infectious social change: t uberculosis and exile among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala /   Angry women and the evolution of Chinese medicine /   Reading gender in ancient Egyptian healing Papyri /   Renâe and the 'Mal du Siáecle': a literary ro le model for the negotiation of problematic sexual identity in nineteen th-century Europe - the case of Custine and Amiel /   Poetry, pictures and the sexual demographics of health /   Nahid Toubia --   Nicola Mai - -   Nana Wilson-Tagoe --   Philippa Levine --   Margaret Healy --   James N. Agar --   Lynda Morgan --   Rachel Harrison --   George S . Rousseau --   Michael Worton --   Audrey Prost --   Shig ehisa Kuriyama --   Stephen Quirke --   Caroline Warman --   Debor ah Kirklin.   PART I: THE POLITICS OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH --   PART II: THE RE PRESENTATION OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH --   PART I II: LEARNING FROM SICKNESS AND HEALTH -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1844720179 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005-295595 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical anthropology.<br/>Diseases-- Cross-cultural studies.<br/>Health-- Cross-cultural studies.<br/>Sex-- Health aspects.<br/>Body, Human-- Social aspects.<br/>Body image.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4/61