The tapestry of health, illness and disease / edited by Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig.
| Other author | Kalitzkus, Vera. |
| Other author | Twohig, Peter. |
| Other author | Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease Conference 2006 : Mansfield College (University of Oxford)) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, |
| Description | vi, 191 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 55 At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 55. ^A586944 |
| Contents | Introduction / Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 interpretive 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 -- pt. 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. |
| General note | "This book is the outcome of the 5th conference held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2006"--Page 4 of cover. |
| General note | "A volume in the Probing boundaries series 'Making sense of: health, illness and disease.'"--Series title page. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Terms of use | Current Copyright Fee: GBP17.50 0. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018420781 |
| ISBN | 9789042025158 |
| ISBN | 9042025158 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |