| Description |
1 online resource (261 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- The Fallible Body: Narratives of Health, Illness & Disease -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Memori and Personal Illness Narratives -- The Illness Community: Uses of Community in Australian Health Services, Support Resources and Illness Memoir -- The Discovered Self: Dying and Death in the Shaping of Character -- You Have Cancer -- PART II: Addiction -- 'I use drugs, but I am not a drug addict': How Heroin and Cocatine Users Make Sense of their Practice as a Healthy Behaviour -- Addictions as a Disease, Identity and Normality |
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PART III: Popular Representations of Health, Illness and Disease -- Narratives of Illness in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel -- You're the Foreign Body Now: Making Sense of Leukaemia in Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body -- Trauma Narratives in Canadian Fiction: A Chronotopic Analysis of Anne Michaels' Fugitive Pieces and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost -- The Body at Various Stages of Decline: Health, Illness, Disease and Disability in Samuel Beckett's Dramas -- PART IV: Media and Discourse Analysis -- Woman as Mysterious Machine: Metaphor, Rhetoric and Female Sexual Dysfunction |
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At War with Ourselves: Immunology between Nature and Culture -- Shame on You: Discourses of Health, Class and Gender in the Promotion of Cosmetic Surgery within Popular Media -- PART V: Qualitative Research and Community Narratives -- Illness Representations: An Empirical Analysis on the Impact of Belief in the Supernatural in the Tribal Context of Orissa -- Shaping Everyday Life by a Metaphor: Malaria in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire -- The Lived Experience of Older People who Suffer Chronic Pain -- Gendered Distress in Women's Narratives about Cardiac Artery Disease in Kainuu, Finland |
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Carrying the Weight of Disease: Female Obesity in Morocco -- PART VI: Health, Illness, Disease and Practice -- Medical Students' Use of the Body: Challenges and Tensions -- Between Defect and Disability? Problematising Cleft Lips and Palates -- The Politics and Poetics of Migrant Tuberculosis: Making Sense of a 'Social Disease' in Contemporary France -- The Interdependent Roles of Expert and Lay Knowledge in the Process of Trying to Make Sense of Medically Unexplained Symptoms -- Suffering: Rediscovering Religion in Medicine |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kalitzkus, Vera
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| ISBN |
9781904710400 |
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1904710409 |
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