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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tracy Penny Light , Barbara Brookes , Wendy Mitchinson , Barbara BrookesPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.599kg ISBN: 9780773544154ISBN 10: 0773544151 Pages: 408 Publication Date: 06 February 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsBodily Subjects -- ambitious and diverse in scope -- contributes to histories of health and medicine, cultural studies, and gender studies, by making links explicit across these fields. Erika Dyck, University of Saskatchewan This volume offers significant historical context for understanding developments in the medical profession and public health programs. Advanced students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, history, or gender studies may find this specialized book us Bodily Subjects takes the concept of health as fluid and historically contingent, seeking to understand how that concept is raced, classed, and gendered over time and across societies. It will be of great interest to readers in a wide array of fields. Rima Apple, School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Author InformationTracy Penny Light is associate professor in the Departments of Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies, and History at St Jerome's University and the director of women's studies at the University of Waterloo. Barbara Brookes is professor of history at the University of Otago. Wendy Mitchinson is professor emerita and an adjunct professor of history at the University of Waterloo. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |