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Autobiography of a Disease (Paperback)
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Autobiography of a Disease (Paperback)
Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
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Autobiography of a Disease documents, in experimental form, the
experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US
hospitals and clinics. The narrative is based primarily on the
author's sudden and catastrophic collapse into a coma and long
hospitalization thirteen years ago; but it has also been crafted
from twelve years of research on the history of microbiology,
literary representations of illness and medical treatment, cultural
analysis of MRSA in the popular press, and extended
autoethnographic work on medicalization. An experiment in form, the
book blends the genres of storytelling, historiography,
ethnography, and memoir. Unlike most medical memoirs, told from the
perspective of the human patient, Autobiography of a Disease is
told from the perspective of a bacterial cluster. This orientation
is intended to represent the distribution of perspectives on
illness, disability, and pain across subjective centers-from
patient to monitoring machine, from body to cell, from caregiver to
cared-for-and thus makes sense of illness only in a social context.
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