Gender scripts in medicine and narrative / edited by Marcelline Block and Angela Laflen.

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

xlix, 437 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

See What is Beneath Your Clothes: The Spectacle of Public Female Dissections in Early Modern Europe -- Medical Masculinity and Sleeping Beauties: Identity and Sexuality -- Illness and Inoculation -- Aesthetics of Female Illness and Death in Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeis and Maurice Blanchot's L'Arret de mort -- That Means Children To Me: The Birth Control Movement in Lella Larsen's Quicksand --Reconceiving the Surrogate: Maternity, Race, and Reproductive Technonogies in Alfonso Curaon's Children of Men -- Writing to Heal: Narrating Trauma in the Writings of World World 1 Nurses -- Recognizing the Trauma: Battering and the Discourse of Domestic Violence -- Surgical Stories, Gendered Telling: Cosmetic Surgery through the perspective of Patients and Surgeons -- When Remedia Amoris Fails: Chaucer's Literary Medical Exploration of Determinism Materialism and Free Will in Trolius and Criseyde -- Tranquilizing the Caveman: Miltown and Manhood inthe Cold War Era -- Masculinity and Medicine: House and Doctor and Patient in House M.D. -- Exposing Men: Medical Imaging and hte Paradox of Invisibility --- HIV My Darling: Israeli Gay Men Reclaiming Heteronormative Cultural Scripts in the Shadows of AIDS.

Includes bibliographical references and index.