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  • The Jew's Body

    de 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 link between the Jewish ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Franz Kafka, The Jewish Patient

    de 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. ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Multiculturalism and the Jews

    de 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 perspective?Gilman ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Health, Disease, and Illness

    Concepts in Medicine

    de Arthur L. Caplan, Galen, Maimonodes, Roy Porter, G.S. Rousseau, Samuel A. Cartwright, Georges Canguilhem0, Thomas S. Szaz1, George L. Engel2, Robert A. Aronowitz3, Christopher Boorse4, K. Danner Clouser5, Charles M. Culver6, Bernard Gert7, Roberto Mordacci8, Andrew Sobel9, R.E. Kendell0, Winston Chiong1, Alice Domurat Dreger2, Peter Conrad3, Norma C. Ware4, John T. E. Richardson5, Frances B. McCrea6, Martha Holstein7, Sander Gilman8, George C. Williams9, David Magnus0, Eric T. Juengst1, Peter J. Whitehouse2, Maxwell J. Mehlman3, Thomas H. Murray4, Paul R. Wolpe5 ...
    In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor—and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a thing as mental ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews

    de Cathy Gelbin, Sander Gilman ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity around 1800, ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Kafka after Kafka

    Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism

    de Iris Bruce, Sander Sander Gilman, Stanley Corngold, Tali Latowicki, Vivian Liska, Mark H. Gelber, Alana Sobelman, Amir Engel, Caroline Jessen0, Ido Lewit1, Michael G. Levine2 ...
    The topic of "Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the engagement of lesser knownartists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot, Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives. The eleven essays ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Are Racists Crazy?

    How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity

    de Sander L. Gilman, James Thomas ...
    Series Libro 11 - Biopolitics
    The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illnessIn 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Making the Body Beautiful

    A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery

    de Sander L. Gilman ...
    Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts and tummy tucks. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. Sander Gilman seeks to explain why by ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • Antisemitisms

    A History of Jew Hating

    de Sander L. Gilman ...
    Why do Jews continue to serve as targets of hatred – and how coherent is the idea of antisemitism itself? In Antisemitisms, Sander L. Gilman draws on decades of scholarship to argue that such hatreds are less stable and more opportunistic than often assumed. Tracing fantasies of Jewish difference – from appearance and biology to citizenship, nationhood and ‘self-hatred’ – he reveals how ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Doc or Quack

    Science and Anti-Science in Modern Medicine

    de Sander L. Gilman ...
    Reaching from the beginnings of scientific medicine in the nineteenth century through to the present, Sander L. Gilman examines the ever-shifting boundary between scientific medicine and quackery, asking if such a fixed boundary can realistically exist within mainstream medical practice. Through detailed case studies – of stomach ulcers and eye disease – as well as the clinical use and abuse of ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Stand Up Straight!

    A History of Posture

    de Sander L. Gilman ...
    Our bodies are not fixed; they change over time. They vary with alterations in diet, exercise and illness, and shift as we age. Our attitudes to bodies, and especially to posture – how people hold themselves, how they move – are also fluid. Our stance and gait are interpreted as healthy or ill, able or disabled, elegant or slovenly, beautiful or ugly. In Stand Up Straight!: A History of Posture ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Freud, Race, and Gender

    de Sander L. Gilman ...
    A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the "serious" medical literature of the fin de siècle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and sexually degenerate. In this provocative book, Sander L. Gilman argues that Freud's internalizing of these images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis. Examining a variety of ... Leer más

    $41.79 USD