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Making Bodies Kosher
(2019)
For Haredi Jews, reproduction is entangled with issues of health, bodily governance and identity. This is an analysis of the ways in which Haredi Jews negotiate healthcare services using theoretical perspectives in political ...
Chapter 2 Grey Time: Anachromism and Waiting for Beckett
(2023)
Alongside marking Beckett’s obvious fascination with what we would now
call greyscale images, this chapter will argue that Beckett’s modernist, often
minimalist works also materialise an analogous temporal aesthetic: a ...
Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review
(2023)
Peer review is supposed to ensure that published work, in philosophy and in other disciplines, meets high standards of rigor and interest. But many people fear that it no longer is fit to play this role. This Element ...
Chapter 13 A Change of Heart: Animality, Power, and Black Posthuman Enhancement in Malorie Blackman’s Pig-Heart Boy
(2024)
As cardiac xenotransplantation moves from labs into hospitals, this chapter asks what Malorie Blackman’s young adult novel Pig-Heart Boy reveals about power, race, and identity in relation to the experimental therapy. ...
Chapter Broadcasting Communist Morality: Sex Education in Soviet Latvia
(2023)
Mass media was an important technology of sexual enlightenment in the Brezhnev-era USSR. In the Latvian SSR, sex education materials positioned medical experts working within the state healthcare system as the chief authority ...
Stress in Post-War Britain, 1945–85
(2016)
In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war ...
Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities
(2019)
Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical and health discourse in China in both the past and the present, as well as in shaping its future. Drawing ...
Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine
(2018)
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Experiences of hearing ...
Negotiating Bioethics
(2013)
A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. The sequencing of the entire ...
Chapter 12 Peer pressure and heterosexual norms among young black men in Somkhele, South Africa
(2025)
This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa. It considers how socio-cultural and economic factors shape young men’s experiences of masculinity and the ...