Overview

Human suffering and illness as well as health and healing are topics of ongoing actuality. In a world of growing complexity and interrelatedness a broader perspective on these topics is needed. The global conference project on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease” is a forum for scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 5th conference held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2006. It combines essays that transgress traditional disciplinary boundaries in the field of health care delivery and medicine. It thus will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care providers who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which health, illness and disease can be understood.

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Author:   Vera Kalitzkus ,  Peter L. Twohig
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   55
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.348kg
ISBN:  

9789042025158

ISBN 10:   9042025158
Pages:   199
Publication Date:   01 January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Vera KALITZKUS and Peter L. TWOHIG: Introduction Part 1. Perspectives from Literature Harold SCHWEIZER: On Waiting and Hoping in Raymond Carver's A Small, Good Thing Jennifer COOKE: Writing Plague: Transforming Narrative, Witnessing and History Sherah WELLS: Strand by Strand: Untying the Knots of Mental and Physical Illness in the Correspondence and Diaries of Antonia White and Emily Holmes Coleman Part 2. Politics, Community and Biomedicine Stephan VAN ERP: Diagnosing Hidden Religion in Medicine: Health, Illness and the Politics of Hope Kate COLEMAN: Personal and Communal Reactions to Cancer: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Beliefs held by Charedi Jewish Breast Cancer Patients Janina KEHR: The Politics and Poetics of Migrant Tuberculosis: Modelling a Social Disease in French Public Health Monica BROWN: Woman as Mysterious Machine: Metaphor, Rhetoric and Female Sexual Dysfunction Part 3. The Multiple Subjectivities of Addiction Andy RUDDOCK: It's the Stories You Tell: Binge Drinking, Violence and Celebrity Maria CAIATA ZUFFEREY: I use drugs, but I am not a drug addict : How Heroin and Cocaine Users Make Sense of Their Practice as a Healthy Behaviour Kimmo SAARISTO: Abnormal Normality: Addiction, Identity and the Problem of Normal

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