Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David B Morris

Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David B Morris

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Explores the changes in the way people fall ill. This title tells the story, or stories, of what goes into making the postmodern experience of illness different. It shows how the ideas of illness, health, and postmodernism illuminate one another in late-twentieth-century culture.

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Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age by David B Morris

Explores the changes in the way people fall ill. This title tells the story, or stories, of what goes into making the postmodern experience of illness different. It shows how the ideas of illness, health, and postmodernism illuminate one another in late-twentieth-century culture.
David B. Morris, winner of a 1992 PEN award for The Culture of Pain (California, 1991) and author of the award-winning Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984), lives and writes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His most recent book is Earth Warrior: Overboard with Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (1995).
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ISBN 13 9780520208698
ISBN 10 0520208692
Title Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age
Author David B Morris
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher University of California Press
Year published 1998-10-27
Number of pages 345
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.