In today's globalised world, it is increasingly important to understand the otherness of different societies and their beliefs, histories and practices. This book focuses on a burning cultural issue: how concepts and constructions of gender and sexuality impact upon health, medicine and healthcare. Starting from the premise that health is neither a universal nor a unitary concept, it offers a series of interdisciplinary analyses of what sickness and well-being have been, are and can be.
The originality of this book is its cross-cultural and trans-historical approach. Bringing...
In today's globalised world, it is increasingly important to understand the otherness of different societies and their beliefs, histories and pract...