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Reconstructing illness : studies in pathography

Title
  1. Reconstructing illness : studies in pathography / Anne Hunsaker Hawkins.
Published by
  1. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©1993.
Author
  1. Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker, 1944-

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Description
  1. xiv, 217 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "Serious illness and mortality, that most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, is the focus of this pioneering study, hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times." "As modern medicine has become more scientific and impersonal, a new literary genre has emerged. Pathography is personal narrative that describes experiences of illness, treatment, and sometimes death. Anne Hunsaker Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies yields a study of the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that patients and those close to them bring to the medical encounter." "Recommended for medical students and doctors, students of popular culture, sociologists, and the general reader, Reconstructing Illness demonstrates that "only when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human.""--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  1. Sick > United States > Biography > History and criticism
  2. Sick > United States > Psychology
  3. Autobiography
  4. Biography as a literary form
  5. Diseases > United States > Public opinion
  6. Death > Psychological aspects
  7. Health attitudes
  8. Biography
  9. Attitude to Death
  10. Attitude to Health
  11. Autobiographies as Topic
  12. Disease > psychology
  13. Patients > psychology
  14. Biographies as Topic
  15. autobiography (genre)
  16. biographies (literary works)
  17. biography (general genre)
  18. Health attitudes
  19. Death > Psychological aspects
  20. Autobiography
  21. Biography as a literary form
  22. Diseases > Public opinion
  23. Sick > Biography
  24. Sick > Psychology
  25. Unheilbarkeit
  26. Bewältigung
  27. Fallstudiensammlung
  28. Todeserfahrung
  29. Unheilbar Kranker
  30. Pathologie
  31. Biografieën
  32. Zieken
  33. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Autobiography
  2. autobiographies (literary works)
  3. Autobiographies
  4. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  5. Autobiographies.
Contents
  1. The Myth of Rebirth and the Promise of Cure -- Myths of Battle and Journey -- Constructing Death: Myths about Dying -- Healthy-Mindedness: Myth as Medicine -- Pathographies and Ideological Myth in the 1990s.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-207) and index.