MITCHELL, DAVID & SNYDER, SHARON (1997), The Body and Physical Difference : Discourses of Disability, University of Michigan Press. This text focuses on human disability within the humanities by exploring the fantasies, fictions and conceptions of physical and cognitive difference. In highlighting the significance of disability in culture, the authors show how definitions of disability underpin fundamental concepts such as normalcy, health, body individuality, citizenship, and morality. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN  (1991), The Jew's Body, Routledge.  Drawing on a wealth of medical and historical materials, the author details the anti-Semitic rhetoric about the Jewish body and mind and uses case studies to illustrate how Jews have responded to such public misconceptions and discourses. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (1998), Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery, Duke University Press.  This text deals with the changing attitudes to the significance of beauty with discussions in a variety of fields to emphasize the relationship between the aesthetics and the science of psychology, with substantial sections on Adler and Freud. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (1999), Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery, Princeton University Press.  A wide ranging and well informed text that deals with surgery to produce a nuanced history of an important discipline in terms of the procedures, patients, aesthetics, and anxieties. (For more information click on the provided link)

SANDER, GILMAN (2004), Fat Boys: A Slim Book, University of Nebraska Press.  This text deals with the issue of obesity in its new considerations away from its typical discourses to present a comprehensive exploration of the fat male body as "soldier", "detective", and "athlete" in terms of the meanings such a body generates. (For more information click on the provided link)