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Illness and culture in the postmodern age / David B. Morris.
LIBRA RA418 .M68 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morris, David B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diseases--Social aspects.
- Diseases.
- Social medicine--Philosophy.
- Social medicine.
- Postmodernism.
- Physical Description:
- 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- "Morris weaves a seamless web from Nietzsche to Warhol, convincing us that postmodernism is not only a trendy label but a necessary context for talk about health and illness, medicine and suffering. . . . Anyone who wants to understand why people get sick differently in different cultures, and what's making us sick here and now, will be refreshed and enlightened by this book".--Arthur W. Frank, author of "The Wounded Storyteller". 7 illustrations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-333) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520208692
- 0520214412
- OCLC:
- 38966017
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