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

SeriesAt 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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ISBN9789042025158
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