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1 online resource (vi, 191 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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At the interface/probing the boundaries,
1570-7113 ;
v. 55
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At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 55.
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| Note |
Title from PDF title page (viewed Feb. 7, 2009). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig Part 1 : Perspectives from literature. On waiting and hoping in Raymond Carver's "A small good thing" / Harold Schweizer -- Writing plague : transforming narrative, witnessing and history / Jennifer Cooke -- Strand by strand : untying the knots of mental and physical illness in the correspondence and diaries of Antonia White and Emily Holmes Coleman / Sherah Wells. Part 2 : Politics, community and biomedicine. Diagnosing hidden religion in medicine : health, illness and the politics of hope / Stephan van Erp -- Personal and communal reactions to cancer : an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the beliefs held by Charedi Jewish breast cancer patients / Kate Coleman -- Politics and poetics of migrant tuberculosis : modelling a "social disease" in French public health / Janina Kehr -- Woman as mysterious machine : metaphor, rhetoric and female sexual dysfunction / Monica Brown. Part 3 : The multiple subjectivities of addiction. It's the stories you tell : binge drinking, violence and celebrity / Andy Ruddock -- I use drugs, but I am not a drug addict : how heroin and cocaine users make sense of their practice as a healthy behaviour / Maria Caiata Zufferey -- Abnormal normality : addiction, identity and the problem of normal / Kimmo Saaristo. |
| Summary |
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 deli. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Health.
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Health. |
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Health in literature.
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Health in literature. |
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Health -- Social aspects.
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Health -- Social aspects. |
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Diseases.
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Diseases. |
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Social medicine.
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Social medicine. |
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Substance abuse.
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Substance abuse. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kalitzkus, Vera. Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease. Amsterdam : Rodopi, ©2009 9789042025158 |
| ISBN |
9781435695184 (electronic book) |
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1435695186 (electronic book) |
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9789401206716 |
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9401206716 |
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9042025158 |
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9789042025158 |
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