Illness in context / / edited by Knut Stene-Johansen and Frederik Tygstrup.
This book is a contribution to humanistic studies of illness. Medical humanities are by nature cross-disciplinary, and in recent years studies in this field have been recognized as a platform for dialogue between the “two cultures” of the natural sciences and the humanities. Illness in Context is a...
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| Superior document: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 65 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (245 p. ); ill. ; |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements
- The Search for Meaning in Modern Medicine / Deborah Kirklin
- Dialogue and Creativity – Narrative in the Clinical Encounter / Jan C. Frich
- Clinical Tales and the Artlike Creativity of the Body / Drude von der Fehr
- Signs of Illness / Vincent Colapietro
- From The Day I Wasn’t There / Hélène Cixous
- The Blue Chair A Literary Report on Dementia in America / Frederik Tygstrup
- Henri Michaux in Search of his Tempo, or Great Health / Gérard Danou
- Tolstoy and the Making of the Inhuman / Knut Stene-Johansen
- Treatment Politics: The Rise of Radesyge Hospitals in Norway / Anne Kveim Lie
- Metaphors, Figures and Description in Sénac’s Traité de la structure du coeur, de son action et de ses maladies (1749) / Eric Hamraouï
- Who’s Afraid of Amalie Skram? Hysteria and Rebellion in Amalie Skram’s Novels of Mental Hospitals / Hilde Bondevik
- Like a High Black Wave Jørgen Stein and the Spanish Flu / Mette Kia Krabbe Meyer
- Pathogenesis: Life, Literature and Animality Medical Theory and Biological Nihilism in Eighteenth-Century Thought / Johan Redin
- Note on the Contributors.