Altered Conditions: Disease, Medicine, and Storytelling
by Julia Epstein
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Altered Conditionsprovides a bold new intervention into existing theories of the human body and its meanings in a variety of cultural contexts. By exploring the history of medical narratives, especially medical case histories, as well as the exciting work that has been done in feminist and lesbian and gay studies, Julia Epstein poses a number of provocative questions about the relations between bodies, selves, and identities. Epstein focuses on a number of diagnoses that shed light on what show more is at stake when cultures regulate human bodies, including hermaphroditism, birth malformations, and AIDS. She pays special attention to the regulation of sexual minorities and women and looks carefully at the ways in which cultures attempt to define and control behaviors seen as threatening or subversive. show lessTags
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- Nonfiction, Anthropology, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Art & Design, History, Sociology, Philosophy
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