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The Fallible Body
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- The Fallible Body: Narratives of Health, Illness & Disease
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- PART I: Memori and Personal Illness Narratives
- The Illness Community: Uses of Community in Australian Health Services, Support Resources and Illness Memoir
- The Discovered Self: Dying and Death in the Shaping of Character
- You Have Cancer
- PART II: Addiction
- 'I use drugs, but I am not a drug addict': How Heroin and Cocatine Users Make Sense of their Practice as a Healthy Behaviour
- Addictions as a Disease, Identity and Normality
- PART III: Popular Representations of Health, Illness and Disease
- Narratives of Illness in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel
- You're the Foreign Body Now: Making Sense of Leukaemia in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body
- Trauma Narratives in Canadian Fiction: A Chronotopic Analysis of Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
- The Body at Various Stages of Decline: Health, Illness, Disease and Disability in Samuel Beckett's Dramas
- PART IV: Media and Discourse Analysis
- Woman as Mysterious Machine: Metaphor, Rhetoric and Female Sexual Dysfunction
- At War with Ourselves: Immunology between Nature and Culture
- Shame on You: Discourses of Health, Class and Gender in the Promotion of Cosmetic Surgery within Popular Media
- PART V: Qualitative Research and Community Narratives
- Illness Representations: An Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Belief in the Supernatural in the Tribal Context of Orissa
- Shaping Everyday Life by a Metaphor: Malaria in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
- The Lived Experience of Older People who Suffer Chronic Pain
- Gendered Distress in Women's Narratives about Cardiac Artery Disease in Kainuu, Finland
- Carrying the Weight of Disease: Female Obesity in Morocco
- PART VI: Health, Illness, Disease and Practice
- Medical Students' Use of the Body: Challenges and Tensions
- Between Defect and Disability? Problematising Cleft Lips and Palates
- The Politics and Poetics of Migrant Tuberculosis: Making Sense of a 'Social Disease' in Contemporary France
- The Interdependent Roles of Expert and Lay Knowledge in the Process of Trying to Make Sense of Medically Unexplained Symptoms
- Suffering: Rediscovering Religion in Medicine