The tapestry of health, illness and disease / edited by Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig.
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 fr...
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| Superior document: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 55 |
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| 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. |
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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.