The Grey Zone of health and illness:
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1. Verfasser: Blum, Alan (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bristol, UK Intellect 2011
Schriftenreihe:Culture, disease, and well-being 1
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Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Grey Zone as a Primordial Figure: Greek Origins; 2. Ambiguity as a Social Phenomenon: Reshaping the Greeks; 3. The Elemental Vision of the Split; 4. The Official History and the Unwritten Text; 5. The Relationship of Knowledge to Life; 6. The City of Pigs as Travesty; 7. Health and the City; 8. On Being Old; 9. The Formula: Medicalization and Its Guises; 10. Prosthetics; 11. The Recurrence of the Body; 12. Moods of Being; 13. Conclusion; References
With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, the book identifies the Grey Zone as the persistence and function of ambiguity in everyday life that requires a complete rethinking of health and sickness, self-governance and negligence. A heady, cutting-edge intervention in a critical area of society, The Grey Zone of Health and Illness will have wide ramificatio
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ISBN:1841503584
1841503649
9781841503585
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