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Reconstructing illness : studies in pathography
- Title
- Reconstructing illness : studies in pathography / Anne Hunsaker Hawkins.
- Author
- Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker, 1944-
- Publication
- West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | R726.5 .H38 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 217 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Serious illness and mortality, that most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, is the focus of this pioneering study, hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times." "As modern medicine has become more scientific and impersonal, a new literary genre has emerged. Pathography is personal narrative that describes experiences of illness, treatment, and sometimes death. Anne Hunsaker Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies yields a study of the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that patients and those close to them bring to the medical encounter." "Recommended for medical students and doctors, students of popular culture, sociologists, and the general reader, Reconstructing Illness demonstrates that "only when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human.""--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Sick > United States > Biography > History and criticism
- Sick > United States > Psychology
- Autobiography
- Biography as a literary form
- Diseases > United States > Public opinion
- Death > Psychological aspects
- Health attitudes
- Biography
- Attitude to Death
- Attitude to Health
- Autobiographies as Topic
- Disease > psychology
- Patients > psychology
- Biographies as Topic
- autobiography (genre)
- biographies (literary works)
- biography (general genre)
- Health attitudes
- Death > Psychological aspects
- Autobiography
- Biography as a literary form
- Diseases > Public opinion
- Sick > Biography
- Sick > Psychology
- Unheilbarkeit
- Bewältigung
- Fallstudiensammlung
- Todeserfahrung
- Unheilbar Kranker
- Pathologie
- Biografieën
- Zieken
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-207) and index.
- Contents
- The Myth of Rebirth and the Promise of Cure -- Myths of Battle and Journey -- Constructing Death: Myths about Dying -- Healthy-Mindedness: Myth as Medicine -- Pathographies and Ideological Myth in the 1990s.
- ISBN
- 1557530386
- 9781557530387
- 1557530300
- 9781557530301
- LCCN
- 92049892
- OCLC
- ocm26317913
- 26317913
- SCSB-1989118
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library