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Published: 15 April 2004
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385530-015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8553-0
Published: 08 May 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822397595-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9759-5
Published: 08 May 2013
DOI: 10.1215/9780822397595-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9759-5
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By Ralph Snyderman
Published: 14 October 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7393-3
... History of Medicine Pathophysiology Flexner Report Medical Education Academic medical centers ...
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By Eric Plemons
Published: 04 August 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7270-7
... clinical history facial sex difference racialization trans- medicine Douglas Ousterhout ...
Published: 14 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373933-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7393-3
... A brief history of Western medicine starts with Galen and takes one from the humoral-imbalance theory to the late 19 th century germ theory of disease. A key turning point in medicine was the Flexner Report of 1910, which facilitated the transformation of medicine into a science-based...
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By Eric Plemons
Published: 04 August 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372707-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7270-7
... critical engagements with trans- history, economic shifts in American medicine, and influential ideas in gender theory have informed the project. Trans- therapeutics is offered as a framework for thinking about the assumptions, aims, and ends of trans- medicine, and it is argued that facial feminization...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 10 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373285-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7328-5
... the legal history of an anticancer drug, Gleevec, in India between 2005 and 2013 to consider the place of the law and judicial governance in articulations of health, value, knowledge, and politics. access to medicines chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) constitutionalism evergreening Gleevec...
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By Eric Plemons
Published: 04 August 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372707-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7270-7
... enacting a change of sex. clinical history facial sex difference racialization trans- medicine Douglas Ousterhout ...
Published: 04 August 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372707-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7270-7
... This chapter engages the ethical history of American trans- medicine as a distinct “geography of care” and shows how that history continues to bear on the clinical present. Surgeons’ efforts to frame their work with trans- patients in ethical and affective terms both respond to the fact of poor...
Published: 04 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027157-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2715-7
... these histories of gynecology and medicine, Falu interprets the intricacies of language, symbols, and power relations, and the nuances of physicians' socialities sometimes contested by Black lesbians. Gynecology is where gender is constructed, race is made, and sexuality is deployed. Through the dichotomy...
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By Nancy Rose Hunt
Published: 01 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375241-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7524-1
..., and dancing coiled and uncoiled. Other concepts include Canguilhem’s shrunken milieu and latitude , Bachelard’s reverie , and Balandier’s pointing at pathological crises . Historiographically, the way histories of imperial medicine have been limited to the biopolitical is rejected, whereas Africanist...
Published: 19 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373889-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7388-9
... This chapter discusses Barry Jenkins’s Medicine for Melancholy (2008), exploring the film’s accounting of blackness, city, and historiographic rupture in the age of neoliberalism. The chapter argues that the film’s story of a black man and black woman who couple for a day after a one-night stand...
Published: 01 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375241-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7524-1
... Nervousness, not a European characteristic alone, was basic to the vernacular. The conclusion returns to evidence on gender and thinks through the implications for HIV findings and African and medical history. It underlines interpretive techniques for new historical and anthropological writing...
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027751-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2775-1
... This chapter concerns the scientific proof of transsexual nature , a term used in the legal codes on transsexuality in Turkey. The first part of the chapter examines the scientific history of the contemporary regulation of sex/gender nonconformity and transness by situating the medicolegal...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 05 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374480-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7448-0
.../colonial settler-state perpetuates relationships of financial and intellectual dependency. This is one way global health “aspirations toward a contemporary global sovereign” dovetail with long-standing colonial histories to ensure the perpetuation of colonial dependencies in indigenous communities. Yet...
Book Chapter

By Ralph Snyderman
Published: 14 October 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7393-3
... positions prior to Duke University. Brooklyn Ukraine Medical School Genentech Inc. A brief history of Western medicine starts with Galen and takes one from the humoral-imbalance theory to the late 19 th century germ theory of disease. A key turning point in medicine was the Flexner Report...
Published: 08 May 2013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9759-5
...Animals and Medicine, Science and Public Health ...
Published: 30 January 1992
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382584-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8258-4
... A. Native American B. African-American C. Hispanic D. Pennsylvania-German E. Asian-American 5. Ethnomedical Traditions in the World A. Latin American B. Caribbean C. African D. Asian E. British F. European 6. History of Medicine 7. General Studies in Medical Folklore 8. General...
Published: 30 January 1992
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382584-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8258-4
... A. Native American B. African-American C. Hispanic D. Pennsylvania-German E. Asian-American 5. Ethnomedical Traditions in the World A. Latin American B. Caribbean C. African D. Asian E. British F. European 6. History of Medicine 7. General Studies in Medical Folklore 8. General...