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Reconstructing Illness
Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
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Paperback. Demonstrates that "only when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human". The second edition of this text features a revised and expanded appendix and an additional chapter on the myths of self-narrative and ethical concerns. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: JM; MJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Purdue University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
289
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557531261
SKU
V9781557531261
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About Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Humanities; Director, The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1978.
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