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Literary Studies

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Communicative Biocapitalism

The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities

By Olivia Banner
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies

Scrutinizes dominant models of health and ability, race, and gender and the structure of digital health

Mammographies

The Cultural Discourses of Breast Cancer Narratives

By Mary K. DeShazer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine, Disability Studies

Uncovers the lived experience of breast cancer through autobiographical and photographic narratives

Fractured Borders

Reading Women's Cancer Literature

By Mary K. DeShazer
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Literature and Science

Looks at the ways that literary artists have responded to women's cancer through poetry, drama, fiction, autobiography, and environmental writing

The DNA Mystique

The Gene as a Cultural Icon

By Dorothy Nelkin & M. Susan Lindee
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Literary Studies, Literature and Science, History, Cultural Studies
Series: Conversations in Medicine and Society

Explores the values, assumptions, and consequences of the circulation of DNA in popular culture

What Do Gay Men Want?

An Essay on Sex, Risk, and Subjectivity

By David Halperin
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Health & Medicine

A crucial effort to understand gay men's relation to sex and risk without recourse to tainted psychological concepts

Points of Contact

Disability, Art, and Culture

Edited by Susan Crutchfield & Marcy Joy Epstein
Subjects: Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Health & Medicine
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A richly diverse collection of essays, memoir, poetry and photography on aspects of disability and its representation in art

Revels in Madness

Insanity in Medicine and Literature

By Allen Thiher
Subjects: Disability Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Literary Criticism and Theory, Health & Medicine
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A sweeping survey of how notions of madness have been represented in medicine and literature from the Greeks to the present

The Body and Physical Difference

Discourses of Disability

Edited by David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Health & Medicine
Series: The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism

Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality

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