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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Diedrich, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sick > Psychology.
Patients' writings.
Diseases and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL > Essays.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
Attitudes à l'egard de la sante.
Mort > Aspect psychologique.
Medecine dans la litterature.
Maladies et litterature.
Écrits de patients > Histoire et critique.
Malades > Psychologie.
Autobiography
Attitude to Health
Attitude to Death
Sick Role
Medicine in Literature
Health attitudes.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Medicine in literature.
Patients' writings > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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, Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's White Glasses, Diedrich demonstrates how language both captures and fails to capture these scenes of loss.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780816654154

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