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Treatments : Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness /

Lisa Diedrich considers illness narratives, demonstrating that these texts not only recount symptoms but also describe illness as an event that reflects wider cultural contexts, including race, gender, class, and sexuality. Looking at narratives including Susan Sontag's Illness As Metaphor, Aud...

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Autor principal: Diedrich, Lisa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 0 |t Introduction : Doing treatments --  |g 1.  |t Patients and biopower : disciplined bodies, regularized populations, and subjugated knowledges --  |g 2.  |t Politicizing patienthood : ideas, experience, and affect --  |g 3.  |t Stories for and against the self : breast cancer narratives from the United States and Britain --  |g 4.  |t Becoming-patient : negotiating healing, desire, and belonging in doctors' narratives --  |g 5.  |t Between two deaths : practices of witnessing --  |t Conclusion : Toward an ethics of failure --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Notes --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index. 
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