1 option
Imaging and imagining illness : becoming whole in a broken body / edited by Devan Stahl ; foreword by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie, author of foreword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sick--Psychology.
- Diseases--Arts.
- Chronic diseases--Psychological aspects.
- Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Diseases--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Multiple sclerosis--Imaging.
- Multiple sclerosis--Patients.
- Chronic diseases.
- Medicine--Religious aspects.
- Multiple sclerosis.
- Diseases.
- Arts.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 119 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- Medical imaging technologies can help diagnose and monitor patients' diseases, but they do not capture the lived experience of illness. In this volume, Devan Stahl shares her story of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis with the aid of magnetic resonance images (MRIs). Although clinically useful, Stahl did not want these images to be the primary way she or anyone else understood her disease or what it is like to live with MS. With the help of her printmaker sister, Darian Goldin Stahl, they were able to reframe these images into works of art. The result is an altogether different image of the ill body. Now, the Stahls open up their project to four additional scholars to help shed light on the meaning of illness and the impact medical imaging can have on our cultural imagination. Using their insights from the medical humanities, literature, visual culture, philosophy, and theology, the scholars in this volume advance the discourse of the ill body, adding interpretations and insights from their disciplinary fields. -- back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Living into my image / Devan Stahl
- Lived scans / Darian Goldin Stahl
- "The becoming of my life ..." Liminality, pathography, and identity / Theresa Jones
- Techno vision : seeing through the scanner / Kristen Ostherr
- Artful self-reflection as bio-medical intervention : some theological musings / Ellen T. Armour
- Icons of the body, darker gifts of the flesh / Jeffrey P. Bishop
- Reflections / Devan Stahl.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781625648372
- 1625648375
- OCLC:
- 1028676096
- Publisher Number:
- 99976759601
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.