The grey zone of health and illness / by Alan Blum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blum, Alan.

Series:

Culture, disease, and well-being.

Culture, disease, and well-being, 2042-177X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [U.K.] : Intellect, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, the book identifies the Grey Zone as the persistence and function of ambiguity in everyday life that requires a complete rethinking of health and sickness, self-governance and negligence. A heady, cutting-edge intervention in a critical area of society, The Grey Zone of Health and Illness will have wide ramificatio

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Grey Zone as a Primordial Figure: Greek Origins; 2. Ambiguity as a Social Phenomenon: Reshaping the Greeks; 3. The Elemental Vision of the Split; 4. The Official History and the Unwritten Text; 5. The Relationship of Knowledge to Life; 6. The City of Pigs as Travesty; 7. Health and the City; 8. On Being Old; 9. The Formula: Medicalization and Its Guises; 10. Prosthetics; 11. The Recurrence of the Body; 12. Moods of Being; 13. Conclusion; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-269).

ISBN:

9786612896057

9781282896055

1282896059

9781841503585

1841503584

OCLC:

680775608