Appetites: food and sex in postsocialist China
Appetites: food and sex in postsocialist China
Appetites: food and sex in postsocialist China
Appetites: food and sex in postsocialist China
Appetites: food and sex in postsocialist China
An experimental ethnography of food, sex, and health in post-socialist China.
Appetites: food and sex in postsocialist China
Judith Farquhar's innovative study of medicine and popular culture in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism, and observations of cli…
Western medicine--especially in contrast with non-Western traditions of medical practice--is widely thought of as a coherent and unified field in which beliefs, definitions, and judgments are shared. Marc Berg and Annemarie Mol debunk this myth with an interdisciplinary and inte…
In this work, Barry Saunders provides an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shaped social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT suite.