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  • ILLNESS AND IMAGE
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    ILLNESS AND IMAGE
    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 Ima...

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  • DISEASES AND DIAGNOSES
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    DISEASES AND DIAGNOSES
    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...

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  • THE JEW'S BODY
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    THE JEW'S BODY
    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 lin...

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  • DIETS AND DIETING
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    DIETS AND DIETING
    SANDER L. GILMAN
    Diets and dieting have concerned – and sometimes obsessed – human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved health, spiritual harmony with the universe, and ethical codes of existence. In this innovative refere...

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  • MULTICULTURALISM AND THE JEWS
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    MULTICULTURALISM AND THE JEWS
    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 p...

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  • FRANZ KAFKA, THE JEWISH PATIENT
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    FRANZ KAFKA, THE JEWISH PATIENT
    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. ...

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