John Farquhar: 4 books
by John Farquhar
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
What To Expect When You're Dead: A practical guide to the After Life. What happens when you die? Why does everyone suddenly become so serious? God has a sense of humor, so why don't Theologians? If you need help with these questions, don't worry. John Farquhar has the answers. He asked...
Appetites
Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2002
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 clinics and urban daily...
A Colonial Lexicon
Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1999
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation,...
Feeding Anorexia
Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2003
Feeding Anorexia challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. Through a vivid chronicle of treatments at a state-of-the-art hospital program, Helen Gremillion reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender,...