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  • Doc or Quack

    Science and Anti-Science in Modern Medicine

    by 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 ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Are Racists Crazy?

    How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity

    by Sander L. Gilman, James Thomas ...
    Series Book 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 ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Antisemitisms

    A History of Jew Hating

    by 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 ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Multiculturalism and the Jews

    by 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 ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Jew's Body

    by 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 ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Franz Kafka, The Jewish Patient

    by 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. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Kafka after Kafka

    Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism

    by 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 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Illness and Image

    Case Studies in the Medical Humanities

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    The humanities in higher education are too often labeled as impractical and are not usually valued in today's marketplace. Yet in professional fields, such as the health sciences, interest in what the humanities can offer has increased. Advocates claim the humanities offer health care professionals greater insight into how to work with those who need their help.Illness and Image introduces ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Creating Beauty To Cure the Soul

    Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery

    by Sander L Gilman ...
    Why do physicians who’ve taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? Sander L. Gilman explores such questions in Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul, a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. Following these themes through an ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Fat

    A Cultural History of Obesity

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    The modern world is faced with a terrifying new ‘disease’, that of ‘obesity’. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy, morally repugnant and socially damaging. Fat it seems has long been a national problem and each age, culture and tradition have all defined a point beyond which excess weight is unacceptable, ugly or corrupting.This fascinating new book by Sander ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Diets and Dieting

    A Cultural Encyclopedia

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Diets and dieting have concerned – and sometimes obsessed – human societies for centuries. The dieters' regime is about many things, among them the control of weight and the body, the politics of beauty, discipline and even self-harm, personal and societal demands for improved health, spiritual harmony with the universe, and ethical codes of existence. In this innovative reference work that spans ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Franz Kafka

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Series Book 4 - Critical Lives
    Franz Kafka remains one of the central intellectual and cultural figures of our time. Eighty years after his death his work and life continues to fascinate readers and writers. The aura of his life and times has become part of the way we see our own world - no matter how we define it - some aspect of it is always ‘Kafkaesque’. This is a short, readable biography and critical overview of Franz ... Read more

    $18.99 USD