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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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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2007.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Doing treatments
- 1. Patients and biopower : disciplined bodies, regularized populations, and subjugated knowledges
- 2. Politicizing patienthood : ideas, experience, and affect
- 3. Stories for and against the self : breast cancer narratives from the United States and Britain
- 4. Becoming-patient : negotiating healing, desire, and belonging in doctors' narratives
- 5. Between two deaths : practices of witnessing
- Conclusion : Toward an ethics of failure
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.