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Title The tapestry of health, illness and disease / edited by Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig
Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009

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Description vi, 191 pages ; 22 cm
Series At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 55
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 55
Contents Contents note continued: It's the Stories You Tell: Binge Drinking, Violence and Celebrity / Andy Ruddock -- "I use drugs, but I am not a drug addict": How Heroin and Cocaine Users Make Sense of Their Practice as a Healthy Behaviour / Maria Caiata Zufferey
Machine generated contents note: Pt. 1 Perspectives from Literature -- On Waiting and Hoping in Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing" / Harold Schweizer -- Writing Plague: Transforming Narrative, Witnessing and History / Jennifer Cooke -- Strand by Strand: Untying the Knots of Mental and Physical Illness in the Correspondence and Diaries of Antonia White And Emily Holmes Coleman / Sherah Wells -- Pt. 2 Politics, Community and Biomedicine -- Diagnosing Hidden Religion in Medicine: Health, Illness and the Politics of Hope / Stephan van Erp -- Personal and Communal Reactions to Cancer: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Beliefs held by Charedi Jewish Breast Cancer Patients / Kate Coleman -- The Politics and Poetics of Migrant Tuberculosis: Modelling a "Social Disease" in French Public Health / Janina Kehr -- Woman as Mysterious Machine: Metaphor, Rhetoric and Female Sexual Dysfunction / Monica Brown -- Pt. 3 The Multiple Subjectivities of Addiction --
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Health in literature -- Congresses.
Health -- Congresses.
Health -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Medicine in Literature.
Culture.
Politics.
Substance-Related Disorders.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Kalitzkus, Vera.
Twohig, Peter.
ISBN 9042025158
9789042025158