V. Kalitzkus, P. L. Twohig (dir.),The Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease

Vera KALITZKUS, Peter L. TWOHIG (dir.), The Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease

Amsterdam/New York, NY : Rodopi collection "At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries" n° 55

2009, VII-191 p.

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•  Isbn 13 (ean) : 978-90-420-2515-8

Présentation de l'éditeur

Human suffering and illness as well as health and healing are topics of ongoing actuality. In a world of growing complexity and interrelatedness a broader perspective on these topics is needed. The global conference project on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease” is a forum for scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 5th conference held at MansfieldCollege, Oxford, in July 2006. It combines essays that transgress traditional disciplinary boundaries in the field of health care delivery and medicine. It thus will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care providers who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which health, illness and disease can be understood.

Table

Vera KALITZKUS and Peter L. TWOHIG: Introduction

Part 1. Perspectives from Literature

Harold SCHWEIZER: On Waiting and Hoping in Raymond Carver's “A Small, Good Thing”

Jennifer COOKE: Writing Plague: Transforming Narrative, Witnessing and History

Sherah WELLS: Strand by Strand: Untying the Knots of Mental and Physical Illness in the Correspondence and Diaries of Antonia White and Emily Holmes Coleman

Part 2. Politics, Community and Biomedicine

Stephan VAN ERP: Diagnosing Hidden Religion in Medicine: Health, Illness and the Politics of Hope

Kate COLEMAN: Personal and Communal Reactions to Cancer: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Beliefs held by Charedi Jewish Breast Cancer Patients

Janina KEHR: The Politics and Poetics of Migrant Tuberculosis: Modelling a “Social Disease” in French Public Health

Monica BROWN: Woman as Mysterious Machine: Metaphor, Rhetoric and Female Sexual Dysfunction

Part 3. The Multiple Subjectivities of Addiction

Andy RUDDOCK: It's the Stories You Tell: Binge Drinking, Violence and Celebrity

Maria CAIATA ZUFFEREY: “I use drugs, but I am not a drug addict”: How Heroin and Cocaine Users Make Sense of Their Practice as a Healthy Behaviour

Kimmo SAARISTO: Abnormal Normality: Addiction, Identity and the Problem of Normal