| Description |
1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-333) and index. |
| Summary |
The author of this book argues that postmodern illness is created at the interconnection of biology and culture. Morris analyzes the distinctive experience of illness in our time, taking cultural studies into a new area called 'biocultural' studies. |
| Contents |
Country of the ill -- What is postmodern illness -- White noise of health -- Reinventing pain -- Utopian bodies -- Neurobiology and the obscene -- Plot of suffering -- Illness in the time of Disney. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Diseases -- Social aspects.
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Diseases -- Social aspects. |
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Social medicine -- Philosophy.
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Social medicine -- Philosophy. |
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Social medicine. |
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Postmodernism.
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Postmodernism. |
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Disease -- psychology. |
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Sociology, Medical. |
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Anthropology, Cultural. |
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Philosophy, Medical. |
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Social Medicine. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morris, David B. Illness and culture in the postmodern age. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998 0520208692 (DLC) 98007092 (OCoLC)38966017 |
| ISBN |
9780520926240 (electronic book) |
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0520926242 (electronic book) |
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0585308810 (electronic book) |
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9780585308814 (electronic book) |
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0520214412 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520214415 (alkaline paper) |
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0520208692 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520208698 (alkaline paper) |
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0520226895 (paperback) |
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9780520226890 (paperback) |
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