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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Purdue Univ Pr
Publication date
September 1, 1998
Pages
289
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781557531261
ISBN-10
1557531269
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$22.01
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Leave No One Behind: Hurricane Katrina and the Rescue of Tulane Hospital | Narrative Medicine | At the Will of the Body | The Man With a Shattered World | A Leg to Stand on | The Wounded Storyteller | The Illness Narratives
Summaries and Reviews
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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 has 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. Pathography allows the individual person a voice – one that asserts the importance of the experiential side of illness, and thus restores the feeling, thinking, experiencing human being to the center of the medical enterprise. Recommended for medical practitioners, the clergy, caregivers, students of popular culture, and the general reader, Reconstructing Illness demonstrates that only 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
The price comparison is for this edition
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.
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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