Female genital mutilation: contesting the right to speak of women's bodies in Africa and the West / Albanian masculinities, sex-work and migration: homosexuality, AIDS and other moral threats / The semantics and politics of childbearing and motherhood in contemporary African literature / What difference did empire make? Sex, gender and sanitary reform in the British Empire / Dangerous blood: mensturation, medicine and myth in early modern England / Remembrance of health lost: dis/figuring Africa in European AIDS writing / Vulnerable margins: the iconography of blood, dirt and disease in the early twentieth-century South African settler novel / Sex in a hot climate: moral degeneracy and erotic excess in The story of Jan Daraa / Some fundamental riddles of cholera: sex, sodomy and representations of the fundament / Behold the (sick) man / Infectious social change: tuberculosis and exile among Tibetan refugees in Dharamsala / Angry women and the evolution of Chinese medicine / Reading gender in ancient Egyptian healing Papyri / 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 / Poetry, pictures and the sexual demographics of health