The Grey Zone of health and illness /

With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, the book identif...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blum, Alan, 1935-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Chicago : Intellect, 2011.
Colección:Culture, disease, and well-being ; 1.
Temas:
Medical care > Philosophy.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Social medicine.
Philosophy, Medical
Social Medicine
Médecine > Philosophie.
Médecine sociale.
Soins médicaux > Philosophie.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
Social medicine
Medicine > Philosophy
Medical care > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Grey Zone as a Primordial Figure: Greek Origins; 2. Ambiguity as a Social Phenomenon: Reshaping the Greeks; 3. The Elemental Vision of the Split; 4. The Official History and the Unwritten Text; 5. The Relationship of Knowledge to Life; 6. The City of Pigs as Travesty; 7. Health and the City; 8. On Being Old; 9. The Formula: Medicalization and Its Guises; 10. Prosthetics; 11. The Recurrence of the Body; 12. Moods of Being; 13. Conclusion; References.

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