The book explores the prevalence of anti-Jewish sentiment beyond Western societies, highlighting its existence in Eastern nations like China. It delves into the intricate and multifaceted representations of Jews and Judaism in these regions, challenging the notion that such prejudice is confined to the West. Through this examination, the text aims to provide a broader understanding of the global dimensions of anti-Jewish attitudes.
A timely, cogent exploration of how COVID-19 has caused predudice and xenophobia.
Explores the idea of the multicultural in the contemporary world, a question, which the author frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims: how do Jews define themselves, and how are they in turn defined, within the global struggles of the moment, struggles that turn in large part around a secularized Christian perspective?
A collection of essays dealing with stereotypes in language and in literary texts, especially those associating race with sexuality and pathology (organic disease or madness). The introduction (pp. 15-38) gives a psychological explanation of the need to create stereotypes of the Other and give them mythic negative characteristics in order to categorize and control the world. Negative stereotypes of Jews are discussed in ch. 6 (pp. 150-162), "The Madness of the Jews"; ch. 7 (pp. 162-174), "Race and Madness in I.J. Singer's 'The Family Carnovsky'"; ch. 8 (pp. 175-190), "Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Joke."
The book offers a comprehensive examination of health care and medicine during Maoist China, revealing the intricate connections between local needs, cultural values, and available resources. Zhou Xun delves into how political decisions and social engineering shaped the health experiences of individuals, highlighting the unexpected outcomes that arose from these policies. This study provides a distinctive perspective on the intersection of health and communism, shedding light on the lived realities of the population during this transformative period.
Explores the questions and doubts surrounding the revitalisation of Jewish life in Germany since the fall of the Wall. The volume includes topics such as the social and institutional role of Jews; the role of religion in daily life; and gender and culture in post-Wall Jewish writing.
. Interweaving the history of posture with our developing knowledge of anatomy and cultural history, and fully illustrated with an array of striking images, Stand Up Straight! is the first comprehensive history of the upright body at rest and in movement.
The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illnessIn 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological categories., from mid-19th century Europe, to contemporary America, up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and ask a slightly different question than that posed by Time: How did racism become a mental illness? Using historical, archival, and content analysis, the authors provide a rich account of how the 19th century ‘Sciences of Man’ - including anthropology, medicine, and biology - used race as a means of defining psychopathology and how assertions about race and madness became embedded within disciplines that deal with mental health and illness.An illuminating and riveting history of the discourse on racism, antisemitism, and psychopathology, Are Racists Crazy? connects past and present claims about race and racism, showing the dangerous implications of this specious line of thought for today.
Lidé kouřili odjakživa a zřejmě se budou tomuto potěšení oddávat vždy. Každá kultura v historii něco kouřila, ať už jako lék, jako součást určitého rituálu nebo jako jeden z kulturních aspektů. Dosud ještě nebyla kupodivu popsána žádná historie kouření, založená na skutečnosti, že kouření — ve všech svých formách a se všemi svými produkty — je kulturním fenoménem, který je společný všem lidským společnostem. Kniha Příběh kouření zkoumá kulturu kouření v různých tradicích a místech po celém světě. Od opiových doupat ve viktoriánské Anglii k tabáku z období Edo v Japonsku, od marihuany a kokainu k havanským doutníkům. Kniha vychází z kulturně-historického pohledu a obsahuje velké množství obrazového materiálu: více než tři stovky ilustrací, zobrazujících kouření a kuřáky nejrůznějších látek včetně tabáku, vonných cigaret, marihuany, opia a kokainu. Čtenář v publikaci nalezne slavné jako byly Marlene Dietrichová, Charlie Parker či Bob Marley, ale především se vydá se na cestu zkoumání kouření z mnoha různých hledisek — literatury, umění, kultury, pohlaví, sexuality a zdraví. Jednotlivé pasáže se zamýšlejí nad měnící se roli kouření ve vyspělých a významných kulturách a snaží se odhadnout budoucnost tohoto složitého kulturního fenoménu. Vycházejí z různorodého materiálu, od reklamních obrázků až k právní a morální kritice kouření.
