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Illness as Many Narratives - Arts, Medicine and Culture (Hardcover)
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Illness as Many Narratives - Arts, Medicine and Culture (Hardcover)
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Illness narratives have become a cultural phenomenon in the Western
world but in what ways can they be seen to have aesthetic, ethical
and political value? What do they reveal about experiences of
illness, the relationship between the body and identity and the
role of the arts in bearing witness to illness for people who are
ill and those connected to them? How can they influence medicine,
the arts and shape public understandings of health and illness?
These questions and more are explored in Illness as Many
Narratives, which contains readings of a rich array of
representations of illness from the 1980s to the present. A wide
range of arts and media are considered such as life writing,
photography, performance, film, theatre, artists' books and
animation. The individual chapters deploy multidisciplinary
critical frameworks and discuss physical and mental illness.
Through reading this book you will gain an understanding of the
complex contribution illness narratives make to contemporary
culture and the emergent field of Critical Medical Humanities.
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