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Social studies of health, illness and disease : perspectives from the social sciences and humanities /
Annotation The studies of the human being in health and illness and how he can be cared for is concerned with more than the biological aspects and thus calls for a broader perspective. Social sciences and medical humanities give insight into the context and conditions of being ill, caring for the il...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2008.
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| Colección: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 49. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Part 1: Body, Self and Illness; Shifting Views of Self: Impact of Chronic Illness Diagnosis on Young Emerging Adult Women; Cancer and the Idea of the Self: Philosophy, Memoir, and Medical Trauma; Part 2: Social and Cultural Context(s); Desirability and Its Discontents: Young People's Responses to Media Images of Health, Beauty and Physical Perfection; Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures; Devils, Serpents, Zebras: Metaphors of Illness in Contemporary Swedish Literature on Eating Disorders; Part 3: The Ideal Body
- Writing Over the Illness: The Symbolic Representation of AlbinismGenetics, Disability and Symbolic Harm; Alcoholism: 'Correction' and the Changing Notions of 'Recovery'; Part 4: Representing Pain: Interdisciplinary Perspectives; Perceptions of Pain in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature: Personal Public Narratives in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins; Metaphors of Injury: Women Make Sense of Pelvic Pain; Barriers to Talking About Chronic Pain: Insiders' Views on Illness, Self and Responsibility; Part 5: Perspectives on Donation