Treatments : language, politics, and the culture of illness / Lisa Diedrich.

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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Main Author: Diedrich, Lisa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
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