Treatments : language, politics, and the culture of illness /

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Diedrich, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1950-2006.
Sick > Psychology.
Patients' writings > History and criticism.
Diseases and literature.
Medicine in literature.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Health attitudes.
Medicine in Literature
Sick Role
Attitude to Death
Attitude to Health
Autobiography
Malades > Psychologie.
Écrits de patients > Histoire et critique.
Maladies et littérature.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
Attitudes à l'égard de la santé.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Medicine in literature
Health attitudes
Death > Psychological aspects
Diseases and literature
Patients' writings
Sick > Psychology
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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