Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures.:

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 infl...

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Main Author: Zwierlein, Anne-Julia
Other Authors: Heid, Iris M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014.
Series:Regensburger Beiträge zur Gender-Forschung.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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, drama.
Physical Description:1 online resource (251 pages)
ISBN:3825374807
9783825374808