Illness and culture in the postmodern age /

The author of this book argues that postmodern illness is created at the interconnection of biology and culture. Morris analyzes the distinctive experience of illness in our time, taking cultural studies into a new area called 'biocultural' studies.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morris, David B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Subjects:
Diseases > Social aspects.
Social medicine > Philosophy.
Postmodernism.
Social medicine.
Ethnology.
Medicine > Philosophy.
Disease > psychology
Sociology, Medical
Ethnology
Anthropology, Cultural
Philosophy, Medical
Social Medicine
Sociologie de la santé.
Postmodernisme.
Sociologie médicale.
Ethnologie.
Médecine > Philosophie.
Médecine sociale.
social anthropology.
ethnology.
44.06 medical sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Social medicine
Medicine > Philosophy
Diseases > Social aspects
Postmodernism
Social medicine > Philosophy
Ziekten.
Cultuur.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Country of the ill
  • What is postmodern illness
  • White noise of health
  • Reinventing pain
  • Utopian bodies
  • Neurobiology and the obscene
  • Plot of suffering
  • Illness in the time of Disney.

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