Treatments
Subtitle: language, politics, and the culture of illness
By: Lisa Diedrich.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780816646975; 9780816646982
Subjects: Sick -- Psychology; Patients' writings -- History and criticism; Diseases and literature; Medicine in Literature; Attitude to Death; Attitude to Health; Autobiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Patients and biopower: disciplined bodies, regularized populations, and subjugated knowledges; title: Politicizing patienthood: ideas, experience, and affect; title: Stories for and against the self: breast cancer narratives from the United States and Britain; title: Becoming-patient: negotiating healing, desire, and belonging in doctors' narratives; title: Between two deaths: practices of witnessing.