Gender scripts in medicine and narrative / edited by Marcelline Block and Angela Laflen.
| Other author | Block, Marcelline. |
| Other author | Laflen, Angela. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, |
| Description | xlix, 437 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface / Rita Charon -- Poetry, hysteria and "the complexities of narrative creation" in literature and medicine / Marcelline Block -- Gender at the intersections of medicine and narrative / Angela Laflen -- "See what is beneath your clothes" : the spectacle of public female dissections in early modern Europe / Janine Larmon Peterson -- Medical masculinity and sleeping beauties : identity and sexuality in Henri Gervex's Avant l'opération / Mary Hunter -- Illness and inoculation : narrative strategies in Frances Burney's Camilla / Rebecca Garden -- Aesthetics of female illness and death in Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia and Maurice Blanchot;s L'arrêt de mort / Marcelline Block -- "That means children to me" : the birth control movement in Nella Larsen's Quicksand / Layne Parish Craig -- (Re)conceiving the surrogate : maternity, race, and reproductive technologies in Alfonso Cuar̤ón's Children of men / Sayantani DasGupta -- Writing to heal : narrating trauma in the writings of World War I nurses / Lea M. Williams -- Recognizing the trauma : battering and the discourse of domestic violence / Lisa DeTora -- Surgical stories, gendered telling : cosmetic surgery through the perspective of patients and surgeons / Rachel Alpha Johnston Hurst -- When Remedia Amoris fails : Chaucer's literary-medical exploration of determinism, materialism, and free will in Troilus and Criseyde / James M. Palmer -- Tranquilizing the caveman : miltown and manhood in the Cold War era / David Herzberg -- Masculinity and medicine : House as doctor and patient in House M.D. / Alissa Burger -- Exposing men : medical imaging and the paradox of invisibility in White noise and "My mammogram" / Angela Laflen -- "HIV my darling : Israeli gay men reclaiming heteronormative cultural scripts in the shadows of AIDS / Shirly Bar-Lev, Efrat Tillinger. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010681342 |
| ISBN | 9781443822305 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1443822302 (hbk.) |