ISBN:
0520926242
,
0585308810
,
9780520926240
,
9780585308814
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (345 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.]
Parallel Title:
Print version Illness and culture in the postmodern age
DDC:
306.4/61
Keywords:
Postmodernism
;
Social medicine Philosophy
;
Diseases Social aspects
;
Philosophy, Medical
;
Social Medicine
;
Disease psychology
;
Sociology, Medical
;
Anthropology, Cultural
Abstract:
The author of this book argues that postmodern illness is created at the interconnection of biology and culture. Morris analyzes the distinctive experience of illness in our time, taking cultural studies into a new area called 'biocultural' studies
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-333) and index
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520208698.001.0001
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