The tapestry of health, illness and disease / edited by Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 55
• TeilnehmendeR: Kalitzkus, Vera.; Twohig, Peter.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 55.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 delivery and medicine. It thus will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care providers who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which health, illness and disease can be understood.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig -- 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 -- 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 -- The 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 -- 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.