Beyond words : illness and the limits of expression /

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The author, a three-time cancer survivor, believes that the triumphalist approach to writing about illness fails to do justice to the shattering experience of disease. By wrestling with the challenge of writing about the reality of serious illness and injury, she argues, writers can offer a truer pi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Conway, Kathlyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013
Series:Literature and medicine series (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Subjects:
Chronic diseases > Psychological aspects.
Catastrophic illness > Psychological aspects.
Medicine in literature.
Health attitudes.
Chronic Disease > psychology
Attitude to Health
Catastrophic Illness > psychology
Critical Illness > psychology
Medicine in Literature
Maladies chroniques > Aspect psychologique.
Maladies graves > Aspect psychologique.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Attitudes à l'égard de la santé.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
Health attitudes
Catastrophic illness > Psychological aspects
Chronic diseases > Psychological aspects
Medicine in literature
Personal Narrative
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
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