Illness as many narratives : arts, medicine and culture /

Explores the aesthetic, ethical and cultural importance of contemporary representations of illness across different arts and media. Illness narratives have become a cultural phenomenon in the Western world but their analysis continues to be framed by the context of biomedicine, the doctor-patient en...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bolaki, Stella (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Diseases in literature.
Diseases in art.
Diseases and literature.
Literature and society.
Society in literature.
Medicine in literature.
Sick > Psychology.
Medicine in Literature
Medicine in the Arts
Personal Narratives as Topic
Sick Role
Illness Behavior
Disease > psychology
Maladies dans la littérature.
Maladies dans l'art.
Maladies et littérature.
Littérature et société.
Médecine dans la littérature.
Malades > Psychologie.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Society in literature
Sick > Psychology
Medicine in literature
Diseases and literature
Diseases in art
Diseases in literature
Literature and society
Künste
Krankheit > Motiv
Erzählung
Medizin
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: illness as many narratives
  • Re-covering scarred bodies: reading photography
  • Artists' books in the medical community
  • Performance medicine and radical pedagogy
  • Collaborative film as terminal care
  • Messy confrontations: theatre and expert knowledge
  • Animated documentary and mental health
  • Afterword: #illness.

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