Transplantation Gothic
Manchester University Press - Transplantation Gothic
Transplantation Gothic is a shadow cultural history of transplantation, as mediated through medical writing, science fiction, life writing and visual arts in a Gothic mode, from the ...
Global health and the new world order
Manchester University Press - Global health and the new world order
This book proposes an encompassing view of the transition from international public health to global health, bringing together historians and anthropologists exploring the relationship between ...
Sonic ethnography
Manchester University Press - Sonic ethnography
Basilicata is a region of southern Italy that was the setting for ethnographic research during the 1950s by Ernesto De Martino, Friedrich Friedmann, Edward C. Banfield, amongst others. Sixty years ...
Saving sick Britain
Manchester University Press - Saving sick Britain
The UK, like many similar countries, is seeing a rise in modern epidemics such as depression, heart disease, obesity and cancer. We have an excellent NHS that treats these conditions, but what if we
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Japan's naked art of body positivity
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Japan's naked art of body positivity
Sinking into the almost too-hot bath, aches melting from my desk-weary muscles, I nodded politely to the women opposite. Half-familiar from the neighbourhood, we agreed that the waters were ...
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Pin-up shots in body-positive shoot
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Plus-size woman recreates 1950s pin-up shots in body-positive shoot
Amy Pence-Brown, a self-described 'fat feminist mother' from Boise, Idaho, was inspired by the work of Duane Bryers, the artist who created Hilda in the 1950s Bryers' paintings of the plump ...
When Blood Breaks Down
Updates During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Updates During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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