Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography, Second Edition

by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins

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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 has emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment, and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1557531269

ISBN13:9781557531261

Release Date:August 1998

Publisher:Purdue University Press

Length:289 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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