Anne Hunsaker Hawkins: Reconstructing Illness

Cover: 9781557531261 | Reconstructing Illness | Studies in Pathography, Second Edition | Buch

Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.

Sprache: Englisch

20,00 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Aktuell nicht verfügbar

Kategorien:

Der Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache verfasst.
Die Sprache der Produktbeschreibung und Details kann in Englisch angegeben sein. Sollten Sie Verständnisprobleme haben, wenden Sie sich gerne an uns.

Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Humanities; Director, The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1978

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1998
Fachbereich:	Allgemeine Lexika
Genre:	Medizin
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781557531261
ISBN-10:	1557531269
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hunsaker Hawkins, Anne
Hersteller:	Purdue University Press
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.08.1998
Gewicht:	0,455 kg

Artikel-ID: 123716280

Über den Autor

Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Humanities; Director, The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1978

Ähnliche Produkte