Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography - Brossura

Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker

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ISBN 10: 1557531269 ISBN 13: 9781557531261

Casa editrice: Purdue Univ Pr, 1998

Riassunto

Seriousillness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening ofhuman experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study which has beenhailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicinehas become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre has emerged:pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment, and sometimesdeath. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies highlights theassumptions, attitudes, and myths that people bring to the medical encounter.One factor emerges again and again in these casestudies:the tendency in contemporary medical practice to focus primarily not on theneeds of the individual who is sick but on the condition that we call disease. Pathographyallows the individual person a voice – one that asserts the importance of theexperiential side of illness, and thus restores the feeling, thinking,experiencing human being to the center of the medical enterprise. Recommendedfor medical practitioners, the clergy, caregivers, students of popular culture,and the general reader, ReconstructingIllness demonstrates that onlywhen we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicinethat is truly human.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Humanities; Director, The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1978

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Purdue Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1557531269
• ISBN 13: 9781557531261
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 289
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