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Cultural Studies

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Sensing Health

Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies

By Mikki Kressbach
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Digital Culture Books

An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch

Waiting for Cancer to Come

Women's Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer

By Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

A narrative-driven exploration of the effects of BRCA genetic testing on the lives of at-risk women

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

American Lobotomy

A Rhetorical History

By Jenell Johnson
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Disability Studies, Cultural Studies, History, American Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

Tracing how the meanings of a barbaric surgical procedure emerged, accrued, and transformed within medicine and public culture in the U.S.

Waiting for Cancer to Come

Women’s Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer

By Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

A narrative-driven exploration of the effects of BRCA genetic testing on the lives of at-risk women

Viral Mothers

Breastfeeding in the Age of HIV/AIDS

By Bernice L. Hausman
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine, Disability Studies

Sheds light on the complex cultural politics that surround the promotion of breastfeeding at a time of global health crises

Playing Doctor

Television, Storytelling, and Medical Power

New and expanded edition

By Joseph Turow
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio

A classic look at doctors in television, updated with two decades of new shows and research

Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry

The Birth of Postpsychiatry

By Bradley Lewis
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Cultural Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

A spirited critique of the practice of psychiatry in the United States that argues for the democratization of psychiatric knowledge

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

The Body Aesthetic

From Fine Art to Body Modification

Edited by Tobin Anthony Siebers
Subjects: Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine

Establishes the body's undeniable presence and strangeness as the material out of which human beings are made

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

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

Body Thoughts

By Andrew Strathern
Subjects: Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Health & Medicine
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