We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with
diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness
has changed in the postmodern era - roughly the period since World
War II - as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the
texture of everyday life. Exploring these changes, David B. Morris
tells the fascinating story, or stories, of what goes into making
the postmodern experience of illness different, perhaps unique.
Even as he decries the overuse and misuse of the term 'postmodern',
Morris shows how brightly ideas of illness, health, and
postmodernism illuminate one another in late-twentieth-century
culture. Modern medicine traditionally separates disease - an
objectively verified disorder - from illness - a patient's
subjective experience. Postmodern medicine, Morris says, can make
no such clean distinction; instead, it demands a biocultural model,
situating illness at the crossroads of biology and culture.
Maladies such as chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress
disorder signal our awareness that there are biocultural ways of
being sick. The biocultural vision of illness not only blurs old
boundaries but also offers a new and infinitely promising arena for
investigating both biology and culture. In many ways "Illness and
Culture in the Postmodern Age" leads us to understand our
experience of the world differently.
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