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Reconstructing Illness - Studies in Pathography (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Reconstructing Illness - Studies in Pathography (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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List price R577
Loot Price R490
Discovery Miles 4 900
You Save R87 (15%)
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Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable,
and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this
pioneering study, which has been hailed as a telling and
provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become
more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre as emerged:
pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment
and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous
pathographies highlights the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that
people bring to the medical encounter. One factor emerges again and
again in these "case studies": the tendency in contemporary medical
practice to focus primarily not on the needs of the individual who
is sick but on the condition that we call disease. Recommended for
medical practitioners, the clergy, caregivers, students of popular
culture, 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."
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