Treatments : language, politics, and the culture of illness / Lisa Diedrich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diedrich, Lisa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sick--Psychology.

Sick.

Patients' writings--History and criticism.

Patients' writings.

Diseases and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lisa Diedrich considers illness narratives, demonstrating that these texts not only recount symptoms but also describe illness as an event that reflects wider cultural contexts, including race, gender, class, and sexuality. Looking at narratives including Susan Sontag's Illness As Metaphor, Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's ÒWhite Glasses,Ó Diedrich demonstrates how language both captures and fails to capture these Òscenes of lossÓ.

Contents:

Introduction : Doing treatments

1. Patients and biopower : disciplined bodies, regularized populations, and subjugated knowledges

2. Politicizing patienthood : ideas, experience, and affect

3. Stories for and against the self : breast cancer narratives from the United States and Britain

4. Becoming-patient : negotiating healing, desire, and belonging in doctors' narratives

5. Between two deaths : practices of witnessing

Conclusion : Toward an ethics of failure

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5415-8

OCLC:

476125673