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Understanding the Sociology of Health /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Theories, perspectives and concepts -- Sociological theory: explaining and theorising -- Concepts of health and medicine -- Medical power and knowledge -- Challenging medical dominance -- Evidence and enquiry: an overview of sociological research -- Key themes -- Class and health -- Ethnicity, race and health -- Gender and health -- Mental health -- Sexualities and health / with Megan Todd -- Sociology of the body: chronic illness and disability -- Health, ageing and the life course -- Contexts -- Places of care -- Health care in context / with Clare Swan and Pedro Morago -- Brief social history of health and healing -- Sport, health, exercise and the body -- Death and dying.…”
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Desdemona’s changing voices: from the “Willow Song” to the “Canzona del Salice”
Published 2013-06-01“…The boy’s performance of Desdemona’s death left a lasting impression on early modern audiences, just as Barbary’s singing death did on the character of Desdemona – a detail which enables the dying Emilia to put a finishing touch on the mimetic process by comparing herself to Desdemona, and both of them to the swan, who only sings when she is about to die.The mimetic process was carried further in the 19th century, thanks to the operatic version written by Rossini in 1816. …”
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