author: dr sander l gilman

The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body

... Frankenstein, the questions that the monster asked are not really about the ... answer to “who I am” as an individual and further to “who we are” as a species ... Guide to His Philosophy and Techniques. New York: Oxford University Press ...

Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness

... Josefine Mutzenbacher , as well as in Victorian English child pornography , the child is the active participant if not the initiator of the sexual act.30 The accessibility of the child as sexual object is emphasized . But it is not any ...

Smart Jews: The Construction of the Image of Jewish Superior Intelligence

... Woyzeck ( New York : Avon , 1969 ) , which remains the best English version . The question of the organization of the play and its various editorial levels is unimportant to this paper except for the historical context of the libretto ...

Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia

... fasting and became a staunch supporter. He describes the benefits of such abstention from food in his book The ... Bragg claim in The MiracleofFasting that fastingisa cleansing period to purgethebody of the waste: “You knowyou are fasting ...

Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia

... Dr. Phil McGraw, three irate dieters from Los Angeles sued Dr. Phil for claims made in his “Shape Up!” diet plan (Casewatch 2007). In both his television program and book, Dr. Phil promotes his Shape Up! plan by recommending dieters to ...

Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery

Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery Sander L. Gilman. of therapy . Both of these claims are true . The most ... essay on the philosophy of aesthetic surgery by Christine E. Jones and ... A BEAUTIFUL BODY IS A HAPPY MIND 25.

Smoke: A Global History of Smoking

... stigma . This discussion leads to an equivocal answer and an equally curious realization : namely , that an ... Erving Goffman , a sociologist at the University of California , is often credited with focusing twentieth- century academia on ...

Fat Boys: A Slim Book

... fat becomes the thin ) is trans- ferred to another aspect of the body . What fat means for Cer- vantes , the shape of the nose means for Sterne . How bodies are read is at the center of both satires , but the body parts are different ...

Obesity: The Biography

... essay gives for weight loss are physical exercises, the use of laxatives ... causes of their obesity vary.” “The cause and danger of female obesity” is ... fat woman, who had 139 the “orient” battles obesity.

Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

A Cultural History of Obesity Sander L. Gilman. obesity have shortness of breath and ... essay is very popular abroad. While it was widely used for various ills ... causes of their obesity vary.' 'The cause and danger of female obesity' is ...

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