Diseases & diagnoses : the second age of biology / Sander L. Gilman.

New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Transaction Publishers, [2010], ©2010.

227 pages ; 24 cm

Race (again) and medicine (again) : the Jews and alcoholism -- What is the color of the gonorrhea ribbon? : stigma, sexual diseases, and popular culture in the twenty-first century -- Nietzsche, Bizet, and Wagner : illness, health, and race in the nineteenth century -- Are you just what you eat? : ritual slaughter and the politics of national identity -- Imagining glamour in the age of aesthetic surgery -- Sigmund Freud, electrotherapy, and the voice -- Psychoanalysis, medicine, and the body in the time of Freud and Brill -- The practical aspect of culture in illness : bilingualism in the world of health and illness.

Includes bibliographical references and index.