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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conway, Kathlyn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Item 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).
Physical Description:1 online resource (184 pages).
ISBN:9780826353252

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