This dissertation analyzes the uses of illness in Spanish women's literary and non-literary writings from 1880–1920. Two opposing trends were at work during this period. On the one hand, cultural esthetics privileged sickly, pale, and inactive women. On the other hand, the hygie…
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The well-being of tourists or visitors within a destination has, until recently, received little attention. Issues relating to the personal safety and health of the travelling public have been highlighted by a number of high profile incidents of terrorist attacks, large scale na…
Ours is a culture riddled with preoccupations about health and disease. In this timely 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 …
Depictions of bodies deviating from the norm due to disease or fantastic abilities can look back on a long-standing tradition in the literature of German-speaking countries. Nonetheless, the abundance of particularly female characters who transgress norms in post-1945 novels, an…
The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the causes of the differential treatment of sick boys and girls in Minia, Egypt. I give attention to the social, economic, and cultural factors that define the position of women in this setting and that explain the distribution of d…
“The Right to Pain and the Limits of Testimony” centers on two questions: Who has the right to pain? Who is permitted to speak about issues of injustice affecting them? I contend that the indifference, disavowal, or appropriation of pain results from a structure of witnessing th…
Adult and adolescent patients with illness benefit from religious coping while undergoing treatment (Alcorn et al., 2010; Balboni et al., 2013). Conversely, there is a paucity of research investigating these implications among children with illness. This study uses Interpretativ…
The study tests the hypothesis that migrants offer insurance against illness. The analysis uses panel data on about 732 households spanning 44 villages over 3 provinces in rural Pakistan over three years with a 20-year series of district level rainfall data. The probability of s…
These new Guidelines for Safe Recreational Water Environments describe the present state of knowledge regarding the impact of recreational use of coastal and freshwater environments upon the health of users specifically drowning and injury, exposure to cold, heat and sunlight, w…
"Revised and updated for its Third Edition, this highly acclaimed volume is a definitive guide to the clinical imaging of foot and ankle disorders. The title of this edition has changed from Radiology of the Foot and Ankle to Imaging of the Foot and Ankle to reflect a greater em…