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Medical discourses have a strong presence in our everyday lives. The concept of health is based very much on a cultural understanding of the human body and its role in publicly valued life styles. Thus discussions of the diseased body, and diseases in general, are fascinating objects of analysis (as in the historical cases of yellow fever and typhoid) as they can tells us, for example, about community constellations within society (as in the case HIV AIDS discussions). Besides the discourse of contagious diseases, cultural presentations of medicine and health are also important insofar as they influence the pharmaceutical industry as well as approaches to the human body as capital (think for example of organ transplants or human test subjects). All texts will be available for download on Stud.IP. |
