Bibliograph

Altered conditions, disease, medicine, and storytelling, Julia Epstein

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Label

Altered conditions, disease, medicine, and storytelling, Julia Epstein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-258) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Altered conditions

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

30155297

Responsibility statement

Julia Epstein

Sub title

disease, medicine, and storytelling

Summary

Altered Conditions provides 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 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.--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

Defining disease -- Story, history, and diagnosis -- Case history and case fiction -- Ambiguous sexes -- Dangerous wombs -- Explaining AIDS

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