Social studies of health, illness and disease : perspectives from the social sciences and humanities / edited by Peter L. Twohig and Vera Kalitzkus.

Outcome of the 4th global conference on "Making sense of: Health, illness and disease", held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2005.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Annotation The studies of the human being in health and illness and how he can be cared for is concerned with more than the biological aspects and thus calls for a broader perspective. Social sciences and medical humanities give insight into the context and conditions of being ill, caring for the ill, and understanding disease in a respective socio-cultural frame. This book brings together scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 4th global conference on ¿Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease, ¿ held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2005. This volume will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care provider who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which we can understand health, illness and disease.

Introduction; Part 1: Body, Self and Illness; Shifting Views of Self: Impact of Chronic Illness Diagnosis on Young Emerging Adult Women; Cancer and the Idea of the Self: Philosophy, Memoir, and Medical Trauma; Part 2: Social and Cultural Context(s); Desirability and Its Discontents: Young People's Responses to Media Images of Health, Beauty and Physical Perfection; Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures; Devils, Serpents, Zebras: Metaphors of Illness in Contemporary Swedish Literature on Eating Disorders; Part 3: The Ideal Body

Writing Over the Illness: The Symbolic Representation of AlbinismGenetics, Disability and Symbolic Harm; Alcoholism: 'Correction' and the Changing Notions of 'Recovery'; Part 4: Representing Pain: Interdisciplinary Perspectives; Perceptions of Pain in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature: Personal Public Narratives in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins; Metaphors of Injury: Women Make Sense of Pelvic Pain; Barriers to Talking About Chronic Pain: Insiders' Views on Illness, Self and Responsibility; Part 5: Perspectives on Donation

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