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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Conway, Kathlyn
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Medicine in literature.
Chronic diseases > Psychological aspects.
Catastrophic illness > Psychological aspects.
Health attitudes.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
Attitudes à l'egard de la sante.
Medecine dans la litterature.
Maladies graves > Aspect psychologique.
Maladies chroniques > Aspect psychologique.
Medicine in Literature
Critical Illness > psychology
Catastrophic Illness > psychology
Attitude to Health
Chronic Disease > psychology
Recits personnels.
Personal narratives.
Personal Narrative
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 picture of the complex relationship between body and mind. -- Provided by publisher.
Description:Originally published as: Illness and the limits of expression. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2007.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 14, 2013).
Description matérielle:1 online resource (184 pages).
ISBN:9780826353252

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