Stories of Sickness.

Stories of Sickness.

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering, and medical care. Stories of Sickness explores th...

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Main Author: Brody, Howard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Sick > Psychology.
Self-esteem.
Diseases in literature.
Diseases in literature
Self-esteem
Sick > Psychology
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Summary:Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering, and medical care. Stories of Sickness explores the many dimensions of what illness means to the sufferers and to those around them, drawing on depictions of illness in great works of literature and in non-fiction accounts. The exploration is primarily philosophical but incorporates approaches from literature and from the medical social sciences. W.
Physical Description:1 online resource (555 pages)
ISBN:9780199759798
0199759790
9780190288037
0190288035
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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