| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | A Companion to Health and Medical Geography |
| Editors | Tim Brown, Sara McLafferty, Graham Moon |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Pages | 301-321 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781405170031 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 11 2009 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
Keywords
- "sick" bodies - studying social parameters of normativity and enforcing mechanisms
- Case of representations of AIDS
- Dominant cultural norms associated with "epistemic configuration"
- Media images of SARS, AIDS, and avian flu - critical role of bodies in understanding disease
- Physically fit, slender muscular male body - "imperative to hegemonic masculinity"
- Problematizing the slender female body
- Representing health - from "fitness" to "fatness"
- Representing the healthy/unhealthy body
- Sick natives and contagious places
- Space and place in representations of deviance and interpretations of disease
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