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Picturing Health and Illness(1st Edition)
Images of Identity and Difference
by Professor Sander L. Gilman
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 1995 by The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-5197-1, ISBN: 0-8018-5197-1

"Ours is a culture riddled with preoccupations about health and disease, this text puts forward. In this study Sander Gilman demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history which records the artificial boundaries that continue to divide "healthy" bodies from ones that are ill. He shows how cultural fantasies of health and illness have come to be identified and defined by means of visual, aesthetic criteri ..."

The Case of Sigmund Freud(1st Edition)
Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle
by Professor Sander L. Gilman
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1993 by The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-4535-2, ISBN: 0-8018-4535-1

""Mr. Gilman's work is the most convincing account of how Freud's anxiety about being Jewish is reflected in his work. After reading Mr. Gilman's exhaustive treatment, one cannot help seeing Freud as struggling to formulate a response to the Viennese notions of Jewishness in which he was inescapably steeped."--New York Times."Gilman [is] one of the most original and stimulating cultural historians of his generation... A rich... account t ..."

Jewish Self-Hatred
Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews
by Professor Sander L. Gilman
Hardcover, 480 Pages, Published 1985 by The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-3276-5, ISBN: 0-8018-3276-4

""Jewish Self-Hatred has all the qualities of a master work by a seminal mind. It is a contribution of the first rank and should be regarded as one of the finest studies we are likely to see for a long time of a remarkable and sobering cultural phenomenon."--Chaim Potok, Philadelphia Inquirer."A broad panorama of antisemitism... Gilman's volume has the great merit of a quite unusual breadth of reference."--Times Literary Supplement."

Medical Humanities(1st Edition)
An Introduction
by Professor Therese Jones, Professor Delese Wear, Professor Lester D. Friedman, Mark Vonnegut, Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, Michael Sappol, David H. Flood, Rhonda L. Soricelli, Shelley Wall, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Joseph N. Straus, Martin F. Norden, Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni, Felicia Cohn, Martha Montello, John Lantos, Amy Haddad, Rebecca Garden, Mark Clark, Howard Brody, Rebecca Hester, Jack Coulehan, Rosemarie Tong, Sander L. Gilman, Professor Bernice Hausman, Gretchen A. Case, Alice Dreger, Marjorie Levine-Clark, Susan M. Squier, Rafael Campo, Sayantani Dasgupta, Jonathan M. Metzl, Daniel Goldberg, Maren Grainger-Monsen, Thomas R. Cole, Benjamin Saxton, E. Ann Kaplan, Jerald Winakur, Bradley Lewis, Anne Hudson Jones, Michael Rowe, Ian Williams, Tod Chambers, Raymond C. Barfield, Lucy Selman, Jeffrey P. Bishop, Audrey Shafer, Catherine Belling, Lisa Keränen, Paul Root Wolpe, Professor Allison B. Kavey, Jeff Nisker, Julie M. Aultman, Michael Blackie, Erin Gentry Lamb, Alan Bleakley, Jay Baruch
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2014 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-6246-9, ISBN: 0-8135-6246-5

"Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire medical practitioners to engage in deeper reflection about the human elements of their practice. In "Health Humanities Reader," editors The ..."

Diets and Dieting(1st Edition)
A Cultural Encyclopedia (Paperback)
by Professor Sander L. Gilman
Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2009 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-80193-5, ISBN: 0-415-80193-1

"This volume is a reference tool presenting the historical, popular, and scientific context for diets and dieting from the ancient world to the present."

Fat(1st Edition)
A Cultural History of Obesity (Hardcover)
by Sander L. Gilman
Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2008 by Polity
ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-4440-0, ISBN: 0-7456-4440-6

Nietzschean Parody(2nd Edition)
An Introduction to Reading Nietzsche (Critical Studies in the Humanities)
by Sander L. Gilman
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2003 by The Davies Group Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-888570-58-8, ISBN: 1-888570-58-X

Conversations with Nietzsche - A Life in the Words of his Contemporaries. Translated by D.J. Parent. OUP. 1987.(1st Edition)
by Professor Sander L. Gilman, David J. Parent
Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 1991 by Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-506778-1, ISBN: 0-19-506778-9

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