| Description |
1 online resource (269 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Culture, disease, and well-being ; 1
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Culture, disease, and well-being ; 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Grey Zone as a Primordial Figure: Greek Origins; 2. Ambiguity as a Social Phenomenon: Reshaping the Greeks; 3. The Elemental Vision of the Split; 4. The Official History and the Unwritten Text; 5. The Relationship of Knowledge to Life; 6. The City of Pigs as Travesty; 7. Health and the City; 8. On Being Old; 9. The Formula: Medicalization and Its Guises; 10. Prosthetics; 11. The Recurrence of the Body; 12. Moods of Being; 13. Conclusion; References. |
| Summary |
With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, the book identifies the Grey Zone as the persistence and function of ambiguity in everyday life that requires a complete rethinking of health and sickness, self-governance and negligence. A heady, cutting-edge intervention in a critical area of society, The Grey Zone of Health and Illness will have wide ramificatio. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medical care -- Philosophy.
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Medical care -- Philosophy. |
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Medical care. |
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Philosophy, Medical. |
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Social Medicine. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Medical care. |
| Note |
NetLibrary HTML title: Grey Zone in health and illness |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Grey Zone in Health and Illness. Intellect L & D E F A E 2010 9781841503646 (OCoLC)587198846 |
| ISBN |
9781841503585 (electronic book) |
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1841503584 (electronic book) |
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9781841503646 |
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1841503649 |
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