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Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures

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Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures - Heid, Iris M (Editor), and Zwierlein, Anne-Julia (Editor)
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This collection responds to recent developments in Gender Medicine and the literary and cultural history of medicine. Bringing together scholars from Medical and Humanities departments, it uses case studies to investigate the gendered construction of disease from medieval times until today. The influence of gender on the creation of medical knowledge is now recognized within various branches of the medical field: genetic research, therapy, and investigations into biologically versus life style induced types of disease. In ...

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Gender and Disease in Literary and Medical Cultures 2014, Universitatsverlag Winter, Heidelberg

ISBN-13: 9783825363765

Hardcover