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  • Junk Drawer

    What We Leave Behind

    de Sander Gilman, Barbara Von Eckardt, Mary Bergstein, Daniel Cavicchi, John Jacob, Margaret Olin, Laura Levitt, Ruth Ost0, Rhoda Rosen1, Amanda Leigh Davis2 ...
    Series series Material Culture Perspectives
    Junk Drawer: What We Leave Behind explores the personal objects that were once treasured by their owners yet were ultimately consigned to online “junk drawer” sales. Photographer and coeditor Barbara Von Eckardt acquired these random assortments from estate remnants on eBay and has documented their contents through evocative, sepia-toned images. In doing so, she has breathed new life into items ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

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  • Antisemitisms

    A History of Jew Hating

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Doc or Quack

    Science and Anti-Science in Modern Medicine

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Health, Disease, and Illness

    Concepts in Medicine

    de Arthur L. Caplan, Galen, Maimonodes, Roy Porter, G.S. Rousseau, Samuel A. Cartwright, Georges Canguilhem0, Thomas S. Szaz1, George L. Engel2, Robert A. Aronowitz3, Christopher Boorse4, K. Danner Clouser5, Charles M. Culver6, Bernard Gert7, Roberto Mordacci8, Andrew Sobel9, R.E. Kendell0, Winston Chiong1, Alice Domurat Dreger2, Peter Conrad3, Norma C. Ware4, John T. E. Richardson5, Frances B. McCrea6, Martha Holstein7, Sander Gilman8, George C. Williams9, David Magnus0, Eric T. Juengst1, Peter J. Whitehouse2, Maxwell J. Mehlman3, Thomas H. Murray4, Paul R. Wolpe5 ...
    In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor—and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a thing as mental ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • ‘I Know Who Caused COVID-19’

    Pandemics and Xenophobia

    de Zhou Xun, Sander L. Gilman ...
    This book explores prejudice towards groups who are thought to have caused and spread the COVID-19 virus. The book examines four cases around the world: the residents of Wuhan, China; Ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in the USA, Britain and Israel; African-Americans in the United States and Black/Asian/Mixed Ethnic communities in Britain; and ‘White’ right-wing groups in American and Europe.The ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Franz Kafka, The Jewish Patient

    de Sander Gilman ...
    This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records. Gillman explores the relation of the body to cultural myths, and brings a unique and fascinating perspective to Kafka's life and writings. ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Illness and Image

    Case Studies in the Medical Humanities

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Creating Beauty To Cure the Soul

    Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery

    de Sander L Gilman ...
    Why do physicians who’ve taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? Sander L. Gilman explores such questions in Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul, a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. Following these themes through an ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Making the Body Beautiful

    A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery

    de Sander L. Gilman ...
    Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts and tummy tucks. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. Sander Gilman seeks to explain why by ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • Freud, Race, and Gender

    de Sander L. Gilman ...
    A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the "serious" medical literature of the fin de siècle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and sexually degenerate. In this provocative book, Sander L. Gilman argues that Freud's internalizing of these images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis. Examining a variety of ... Leer más

    $41.79 USD

  • Stand Up Straight!

    A History of Posture

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Mythen, Masken und Subjekte

    Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland

    de Fatima El-Tayeb, Kien Nghi Ha, Hito Steyerl, Ursula Wachendorfer, Antje Hornscheidt, Aischa Ahmed, Joshua Kwesi Aikins, Astrid Albrecht-Heide, Ekpenyong Ani, Marianne Ballé, Eddie Bruce-Jones, María do Mar Castro Varela, Nisma Cherrat, RonAmber Deloney, Anette Dietrich, Mutlu Ergün, Amy Evans, Arnold Farr, Sander L. Gilman, Jin Haritaworn, Gbiango Junior, Carsten Junker, Nicola Lauré al-Samarai, Paul Mecheril, Deborah G. Moses-Sanks, Obioma Nnaemekav, Randolph Ochsmann, Sabina Odumosu, Viola Prüschenk, Julia Roth, Dagmar Schultz, Katharina Schramm, Aretha Schwarzbach-Apithy, Iyiola Solanke, Regina M. Banda Stein, Juliane Strohschein, Makoto Takeda, Timo Wandert, Sénouvo Agbota Zinsou, Katharina Walgenbach ...
    "Mythen, Masken und Subjekte" kann mittlerweile wohl zu Recht als Klassiker der ›Critical-Whiteness‹-Studies bezeichnet werden. Bereits 2005 in erster Auflage erschienen, erschließt der Band einem größeren Publikum die Verlagerung des Fokus im postkolonialen Diskurs Deutschlands auf das ›eigene‹ weiße Subjekt. Die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Kategorie Weißsein wird aus einer Schwarzen ... Leer más

    $27.72 USD