PART I: THE POLITICS OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH
Female genital mutilation: contesting the right to speak of women's bodies in Africa and the West / Nahid Toubia
Albanian masculinities, sex-work and migration: homosexuality, AIDS and other moral threats / Nicola Mai
The semantics and politics of childbearing and motherhood in contemporary African literature / Nana Wilson-Tagoe
What difference did empire make? Sex, gender and sanitary reform in the British Empire / Philippa Levine
Dangerous blood: mensturation, medicine and myth in early modern England / Margaret Healy
PART II: THE REPRESENTATION OF SICKNESS AND HEALTH
Remembrance of health lost: dis/figuring Africa in European AIDS writing / James N. Agar
Vulnerable margins: the iconography of blood, dirt and disease in the early twentieth-century South African settler novel / Lynda Morgan
Sex in a hot climate: moral degeneracy and erotic excess in The story of Jan Daraa / Rachel Harrison
Some fundamental riddles of cholera: sex, sodomy and representations of the fundament / George S. Rousseau
Behold the (sick) man / Michael Worton
PART III: LEARNING FROM SICKNESS AND HEALTH
Infectious social change: tuberculosis and exile among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala / Audrey Prost
Angry women and the evolution of Chinese medicine / Shigehisa Kuriyama
Reading gender in ancient Egyptian healing Papyri / Stephen Quirke
René and the 'Mal du Siècle': a literary role model for the negotiation of problematic sexual identity in nineteenth-century Europe - the case of Custine and Amiel / Caroline Warman
Poetry, pictures and the sexual demographics of health / Deborah Kirklin.