Alice Dreger

Health Humanities Reader

Chapter 20. What Is Sex For? Or, The Many Uses Of The Vag

Rutgers University Press | 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813562483-023
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Health Humanities Reader

Chapters in this book (54)

Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword: Too Long Too Short
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Why, The What, And The How Of The Medical/Health Humanities
Chapter 1. Being A Good Story: The Humanities As Therapeutic Practice
Chapter 2. Illuminating The It, Thee, And We Of Disease And Illness: The Metamorphosis And Related Works
Chapter 3. “This Weird, Incurable Disease”: Competing Diagnoses In The Rhetoric Of Morgellons
Chapter 4. My Quest For Health
Chapter 5. Disability In Two Doctor Stories
Chapter 6. Music And Disability
Chapter 7. American Narrative Films And Disability: An Uneasy History
Chapter 8. Standout
Chapter 9. When The Doctor Is Not God: The Impact Of Religion On Medical Decision Making At The End Of Life
Chapter 10. Postmodern Death And Dying: A Literary Analysis
Chapter 11. Second Degree Block: Poem And Commentary
Chapter 12. Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, And The Social Context Of The Patient-Professional Relationship
Chapter 13. Humanities And The Medical Home
Chapter 14. Occupational Medicine
Chapter 15. The Virtues Of The Imperfect Body
Chapter 16. Seeing Bodies In Pain
Chapter 17. Public Fetuses
Chapter 18. More Body: A Performance For Five (Or More) Bodies
Chapter 19. Adult Intake Form
Chapter 20. What Is Sex For? Or, The Many Uses Of The Vag
Chapter 21. “I Always Prefer The Scissors”: Isaac Baker Brown And Feminist Histories Of Medicine
Chapter 22. Comics In The Health Humanities: A New Approach To Sex And Gender Education
Chapter 23. I Am Gula, Hear Me Roar: On Gender And Medicine
Chapter 24. Listening As Freedom: Narrative, Health, And Social Justice
Chapter 25. Race And Mental Health
Chapter 26. Law’S Hand In Race, Class, And Health Inequities: On The Humanities And The Social Determinants Of Health
Chapter 27. The Rooms Of Our Souls
Chapter 28. “Old Age Isn’T A Battle, It’S A Massacre”: Reading Philip Roth’S Everyman
Chapter 29. “Do You Remember Me?” Constructions Of Alzheimer’S Disease In Literature And Film
Chapter 30. Love In The Time Of Dementia
Chapter 31. Narrating Our Sadness, With A Little Help From The Humanities
Chapter 32. Teaching Narratives Of Mental Illness
Chapter 33. Community Psychiatry And The Medical Humanities
Chapter 34. Culpability
Chapter 35. Rites Of Bioethics
Chapter 36. Health And Humanities: Spirituality And Religion
Chapter 37. Scientia Mortis And The Ars Moriendi: To The Memory Of Norman
Chapter 38. Meditations Of An Anesthesiologist: Poem And Commentary
Chapter 39. Andromeda’S Futures: A Story Of Humanities, Technology, Science, And Art
Chapter 40. Knowing And Seeing: Reconstructing Frankenstein
Chapter 41. A Brief History Of Love: A Rationale For The History Of Epidemics
Chapter 42. Calcedonies
Chapter 43. Teaching Autism Through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing The Divide Between Bioethics And Medical Humanities
Chapter 44. Courting Discomfort In An Undergraduate Health Humanities Classroom
Chapter 45. The Medical Humanities In Medical Education: Toward A Medical Aesthetics Of Resistance
Chapter 46. In Defense Of Cheaper Stethoscopes
References
Notes On Contributors
Index