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Immunity --- Literature and medicine. --- Medicine in literature. --- Research --- History.

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Contrary to what Simone de Beauvoir famously argued in 1949, men have not lived without knowing the burdens of their sex. Though men may have been elevated to cultural positions of strength and privilege, it has not been without intense scrutiny of their biological functions. Investigations of male potency and the 'ability to perform' have long been mainstays of social, political, and artistic discourse and have often provoked spirited and partisan declarations on what it means to be a man. This interdisciplinary collection considers the tensions that have developed between the historical privilege often ascribed to the male and the vulnerabilities to which his body is prone. Andrew Mangham and Daniel Lea's introduction illustrates how with the dawn of modern medicine during the Renaissance there emerged a complex set of languages for describing the male body not only as a symbol of strength, but as flesh and bone prone to illness, injury and dysfunction. Using a variety of historical and literary approaches, the essays consider the critical ways in which medicine's interactions with literature reveal vital clues about the ways sex, gender, and identity are constructed through treatments of a range of 'pathologies' including deformity, venereal disease, injury, nervousness, and sexual difference. The relationships between male medicine and ideals of potency and masculinity are searchingly explored through a broad range of sources including African American slave fictions, southern gothic, early modern poetry, Victorian literature, and the Modern novel.

English literature --- American literature --- Men in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History and criticism. --- Medicine in literature. --- Literature and medicine --- Masculinity in literature. --- History. --- Medicine and literature --- Medicine --- Medical care in literature --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- monstrosity --- medical humanities --- masculinity --- gender studies --- potency --- queer theory --- pathology

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Christian religion --- Islam --- History of civilization --- History of human medicine --- History of the law --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 800-1199 --- Diseases --- Epidemiology --- Medicine --- Medicine, Medieval --- Medicine in Literature --- Christianity --- Communicable Diseases --- Cross-cultural comparison --- Leprosy --- Plague --- Causes and theories of causation --- History --- Religious aspects --- history --- Cross-Cultural Comparison --- Medical care in literature --- Religions --- Church history --- Contagion and contagious diseases --- Contagious diseases --- Infectious diseases --- Microbial diseases in human beings --- Zymotic diseases --- Infection --- Epidemics --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Muslims --- Hansen disease --- Hanseniasis --- Hansen's disease --- Mycobacterial diseases --- Bubonic plague --- Yersinia infections --- Human beings --- Illness --- Illnesses --- Morbidity --- Sickness --- Sicknesses --- Health --- Pathology --- Sick --- Health Workforce --- Public health --- Medieval medicine