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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Purdue Univ Pr
Publication date
June 1, 1993
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781557530387
ISBN-10
1557530386
Dimensions
0.50 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.85 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$17.95
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre as emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies highlights the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that people bring to the medical encounter. One factor emerges again and again in these
case studies: the tendency in contemporary medical practice to focus primarily not on the needs of the individual who is sick but on the condition that we call disease. Recommended for medical practitioners, the clergy, caregivers, students of popular culture, and the general reader, Reconstructing Illness demonstrates thatonly when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human.
Editions
Hardcover
from Purdue Univ Pr (June 1, 1993)
9781557530301 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $33.95
About: Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times.
About: Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times.
Paperback
from Purdue Univ Pr (September 1, 1998)
9781557531261 | details & prices | 289 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $22.01
About: Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times.
About: Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Purdue Univ Pr (June 1, 1993)
9781557530387 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $17.95
About: Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times.
About: Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times.
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