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  • Antisemitisms

    A History of Jew Hating

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Why do Jews continue to serve as targets of hatred – and how coherent is the idea of antisemitism itself? In Antisemitisms, Sander L. Gilman draws on decades of scholarship to argue that such hatreds are less stable and more opportunistic than often assumed. Tracing fantasies of Jewish difference – from appearance and biology to citizenship, nationhood and ‘self-hatred’ – he reveals how ... Read more

    $25.09 CAD

  • Fat

    A Cultural History of Obesity

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    The modern world is faced with a terrifying new ‘disease’, that of ‘obesity’. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy, morally repugnant and socially damaging. Fat it seems has long been a national problem and each age, culture and tradition have all defined a point beyond which excess weight is unacceptable, ugly or corrupting.This fascinating new book by Sander ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Doc or Quack

    Science and Anti-Science in Modern Medicine

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Reaching from the beginnings of scientific medicine in the nineteenth century through to the present, Sander L. Gilman examines the ever-shifting boundary between scientific medicine and quackery, asking if such a fixed boundary can realistically exist within mainstream medical practice. Through detailed case studies – of stomach ulcers and eye disease – as well as the clinical use and abuse of ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • Are Racists Crazy?

    How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity

    by Sander L. Gilman, James Thomas ...
    Series Book 11 - Biopolitics
    The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illnessIn 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Illness and Image

    Case Studies in the Medical Humanities

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    The humanities in higher education are too often labeled as impractical and are not usually valued in today's marketplace. Yet in professional fields, such as the health sciences, interest in what the humanities can offer has increased. Advocates claim the humanities offer health care professionals greater insight into how to work with those who need their help.Illness and Image introduces ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Stand Up Straight!

    A History of Posture

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Our bodies are not fixed; they change over time. They vary with alterations in diet, exercise and illness, and shift as we age. Our attitudes to bodies, and especially to posture – how people hold themselves, how they move – are also fluid. Our stance and gait are interpreted as healthy or ill, able or disabled, elegant or slovenly, beautiful or ugly. In Stand Up Straight!: A History of Posture ... Read more

    $44.29 CAD

  • The Jew's Body

    by Sander Gilman ...
    Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, Sander Gilman sketches details of the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind, including medical and popular depictions of the Jewish voice, feet, and nose. Case studies illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misconceptions as the myth of the cloven foot and Jewish flat-footedness, the proposed link between the Jewish ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Multiculturalism and the Jews

    by Sander Gilman ...
    In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims. How do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that turn in large part around a secularized Christian perspective?Gilman ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Franz Kafka

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Series Book 4 - Critical Lives
    Franz Kafka remains one of the central intellectual and cultural figures of our time. Eighty years after his death his work and life continues to fascinate readers and writers. The aura of his life and times has become part of the way we see our own world - no matter how we define it - some aspect of it is always ‘Kafkaesque’. This is a short, readable biography and critical overview of Franz ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Diseases and Diagnoses

    The Second Age of Biology

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Diseases and Diagnoses discusses why such social problems as addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, racial predisposition for illness, surgery and beauty, and electrotherapy, all of which concerned thinkers a hundred years ago, are reappearing at a staggering rate and in diverse national contexts. In the twentieth century such problems were viewed as only historical concerns. Yet in the twenty ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews

    by Cathy Gelbin, Sander Gilman ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity around 1800, ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • Obesity: The Biography

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Series series Biographies of Disease
    According to the World Health Organization we are in the midst of a global obesity crisis. Is obesity a disease itself or a symptom of underlying physiological or psychological illnesses? Is it a sign of social excess and therefore not a disease in the medical sense at all? Is it really 'new'? Sander L. Gilman, a leading authority in the social and cultural history of the body, presents a ... Read more

    $11.89 CAD