Research Catalog

Title

Social studies of health, illness and disease : perspectives from the social sciences and humanities / edited by Peter L. Twohig and Vera Kalitzkus.

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Twohig, Peter
• Kalitzkus, Vera.

Description

243 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"The studies of the human being in health and illness and how he can be cared for is concerned with more than the biological aspects and thus calls for a broader perspective. Social sciences and medical humanities give insight into the context and conditions of being ill, caring for the ill, and understanding disease in a respective socio-cultural frame. This book brings together scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject.This book is the outcome of the 4th global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2005."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 49

Uniform Title

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 49.

Subject

• Social Conformity
• Pain
• Chronic Disease
• Attitude to Health
• Philosophy, Medical
• Social medicine > Congresses
• Social sciences > Methodology > Congresses
• Health > Philosophy > Congresses
• Health > Social aspects > Congresses
• Diseases > Social aspects > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• This book is the outcome of the fourth global conference on "Making sense of health, illness and disease" held at Mansfield College, Oxford in July 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Shifting views of self: impact of chronic illness diagnosis on young emerging adult women / Amy Rutstein-Riley -- Cancer and the idea of the self: philosophy, memoir and medical trauma / Marlene Benjamin -- Desirability and its discontents: young people's responses to media images of health, beauty and physical perfection / Joe Grixti -- Writing size zero: figuring anorexia in contemporary world literatures / Isabelle Meuret -- Devils, serpents, zebras: metaphors of illness in contemporary Swedish literature on eating disorders / Katarina Bernhardsson -- Writing over the illness: the symbolic representation of Albinism / Charlotte Baker -- Genetics, disability and symbolic harm / Elisabeth Gedge -- Alcoholism: 'correction' and the changing notions of 'recovery' / Donavan Rocher -- Perceptions of pain in contemporary Zimbabwean literature: personal public narratives in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins / Zoe Norridge -- Metaphors of injury: women make sense of pelvic pain / Victoria M. Grace and Sara MacBride-Stewart -- Barriers to talking about chronic pain: insiders' views on illness, self and responsibility / Stella Howden -- Standardising semen: online personalities and the negotiation of health / Susan Rogers -- Media treatment of organ donation: a case study in Switzerland / Peter J. Schulz.

ISBN

• 9789042024052
• 9042024054

OCLC

• 259901717
• SCSB-11082938

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library