Recovering bodies : illness, disability, and life-writing /

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"A compelling look at personal narratives of HIV/AIDS, breast cancer paralysis, and deafness, Recovering Bodies examines many forms of life writing - including memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, and essays - to illuminate the ways in which these narratives address...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Couser, G. Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1997.
Colección:Wisconsin studies in American autobiography.
Temas:
Sick > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
People with disabilities > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
Sick > United States > Psychology.
People with disabilities > United States > Psychology.
Autobiography.
Biography as a literary form.
AIDS (Disease)
People with disabilities.
Biography.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Breast Neoplasms
Disabled Persons
Persons With Hearing Impairments
Autobiographies as Topic
Biographies as Topic
Personnes handicapées > États-Unis > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Malades > États-Unis > Psychologie.
Personnes handicapées > États-Unis > Psychologie.
Autobiographie.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Sida.
Personnes handicapées.
Biographies.
autobiography (genre)
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
People with disabilities
Autobiography
Biography as a literary form
People with disabilities > Psychology
Sick > Biography
Sick > Psychology
Clinical Psychology.
Psychiatry.
Health & Biological Sciences.
United States
Personal Narrative
Personal narratives
Autobiographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Human Conditions
  • Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
  • 2. Medical Discourse and Subjectivity
  • 3. Self-Reconstruction: Personal Narratives of Breast Cancer
  • 4. HIV/AIDS and Its Stories
  • 5. Crossing (Out) the Border: Autobiography and Physical Disability
  • 6. Signs of Life: Deafness and Personal Narrative
  • 7. Epilogue: The Value of Body Stories.

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