Ebook: National Healths : Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-Cultural Context
Author: Wilson Tagoe., Worton Michael
- Tags: Medical anthropology., Diseases -- Cross-cultural studies., Health -- Cross-cultural studies., Sex -- Health aspects., Human body -- Social aspects., Body image., Diseases., Health.
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Taylor and Francis
- City: Hoboken
- Language: English
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In today's globalised world, it is increasingly important to understand the otherness of different societies and their beliefs, histories and practices. This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthcare. Starting from the premise that health is neither a universal nor a unitary concept, it offers a series of Read more...
Abstract: In today's globalised world, it is increasingly important to understand the otherness of different societies and their beliefs, histories and practices. This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthcare. Starting from the premise that health is neither a universal nor a unitary concept, it offers a series of interdisciplinary analyses of what sickness and well-being have been, are and can be. The originality of this book is its cross-cultural and trans-historical approach. Bringing together