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The tapestry of health, illness and disease /
Human suffering and illness as well as health and healing are topics of ongoing actuality. In a world of growing complexity and interrelatedness a broader perspective on these topics is needed. The global conference project on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease" is a forum for s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
©2009.
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| Colección: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 55. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig Part 1 : Perspectives from literature. On waiting and hoping in Raymond Carver's "A small good thing" / Harold Schweizer
- Writing plague : transforming narrative, witnessing and history / Jennifer Cooke
- Strand by strand : untying the knots of mental and physical illness in the correspondence and diaries of Antonia White and Emily Holmes Coleman / Sherah Wells. Part 2 : Politics, community and biomedicine. Diagnosing hidden religion in medicine : health, illness and the politics of hope / Stephan van Erp
- Personal and communal reactions to cancer : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the beliefs held by Charedi Jewish breast cancer patients / Kate Coleman
- The politics and poetics of migrant tuberculosis : modelling a "social disease" in French public health / Janina Kehr
- Woman as mysterious machine : metaphor, rhetoric and female sexual dysfunction / Monica Brown. Part 3 : The multiple subjectivities of addiction. It's the stories you tell : binge drinking, violence and celebrity / Andy Ruddock
- I use drugs, but I am not a drug addict : how heroin and cocaine users make sense of their practice as a healthy behaviour / Maria Caiata Zufferey
- Abnormal normality : addiction, identity and the problem of normal / Kimmo Saaristo.