- Description
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 224 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Treatments (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Treatments (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction : Doing treatments -- 1. Patients and biopower : disciplined bodies, regularized populations, and subjugated knowledges -- 2. Politicizing patienthood : ideas, experience, and affect -- 3. Stories for and against the self : breast cancer narratives from the United States and Britain -- 4. Becoming-patient : negotiating healing, desire, and belonging in doctors' narratives -- 5. Between two deaths : practices of witnessing -- Conclusion : Toward an ethics of failure -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- LCCN
- 2007001734
- OCLC
- ssj0000262106
- Author
Diedrich, Lisa.
- Title
Treatments [electronic resource] : language, politics, and the culture of illness / Lisa Diedrich.
- Imprint
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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