"... the papers in Deviant Bodies reveal an ongoing Western                  preoccupation with the sources of identity and human character." -- Times                  Literary Supplement"Highly recommended for cultural                  studies... " -- The Reader's Review"It would be useful                  for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in the sociology of the body, the                  history and sociology of science and medicine, and women's studies courses,                  particularly those exploring the feminist critiques of science and medicine."                  -- Contemporary Sociology"... a powerful deconstruction of                  the scientific gaze in configuring bodily deviance as a means of legitimating the                  social order within multiple historical and social contexts.... the many excellent                  selections will make for compelling reading for students of medical anthropology and                  the history of science." American AnthropologistDeviant                  Bodies reveals that the "normal," "healthy" body is a fiction of                  science. Modern life sciences, medicine, and the popular perceptions they create                  have not merely observed and reported, they have constructed bodies: the homosexual                  body, the HIV-infected body, the infertile body, the deaf body, the colonized body,                  and the criminal body.

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