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. Ed(S): Schweizer, Harold; Myers, Kimberly
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Paperback. Editor(s): Schweizer, Harold; Myers, Kimberly. Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures. Num Pages: 203 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 263.
This collection of ten essays addresses the suffering of patients and how individuals as well as the larger society understand that suffering and try to ameliorate it. Four essays are personal reflections on illness, often interspersed with analyses of literary texts and including original poetry and creative prose. These pieces reveal how suffering is intensely private, how it happens interstitially, between medical appointments, procedures, and treatments. The essays reveal how, for many people, the psychological fragmentation that typically accompanies serious disease is ultimately more threatening to one's overall well-being than the disease itself. The other six essays take a wider ... Read more
This collection of ten essays addresses the suffering of patients and how individuals as well as the larger society understand that suffering and try to ameliorate it. Four essays are personal reflections on illness, often interspersed with analyses of literary texts and including original poetry and creative prose. These pieces reveal how suffering is intensely private, how it happens interstitially, between medical appointments, procedures, and treatments. The essays reveal how, for many people, the psychological fragmentation that typically accompanies serious disease is ultimately more threatening to one's overall well-being than the disease itself. The other six essays take a wider ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
Series
Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures
Number of Pages
203
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483468
SKU
V9781611483468
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About . Ed(S): Schweizer, Harold; Myers, Kimberly
Harold Schweizer is John P. Crozer Professor of English Literature at Bucknell University. Kimberly R. Myers is associate professor in the Department of Humanities in the College of Medicine and in the Department of English at The Pennsylvania State University.
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