Illness and culture in the postmodern age:
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Main Author: Morris, David B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©1998
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-333) and index
The author of this book argues that postmodern illness is created at the interconnection of biology and culture. Morris analyzes the distinctive experience of illness in our time, taking cultural studies into a new area called 'biocultural' studies
Country of the ill -- - What is postmodern illness -- - White noise of health -- - Reinventing pain -- - Utopian bodies -- - Neurobiology and the obscene -- - Plot of suffering -- - Illness in the time of Disney
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
ISBN:0520208692
0520214412
0520226895
0520926242
0585308810
9780520208698
9780520214415
9780520226890
9780520926240
9780585308814

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