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Treatments : language, politics, and the culture of illness
- Title
- Treatments : language, politics, and the culture of illness / Lisa Diedrich.
- Author
- Diedrich, Lisa.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007], ©2007.
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- Description
- xxiv, 224 pages; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780816646975 (hc : alk. paper)
- 081664697X (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816646982 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0816646988 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007001734
- OCLC
- ocm82367652
- 82367652
- SCSB-5349940
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries