Reconstructing Illness
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Reconstructing Illness by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
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 as emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies highlights the assumptions, attitudes, and myths that people bring to the medical encounter. One factor emerges again and again in these case studies: the tendency in contemporary medical practice to focus primarily not on the needs of the individual who is sick but on the condition that we call disease. Recommended for medical practitioners, the clergy, caregivers, students of popular culture, and the general reader, Reconstructing Illness demonstrates that only when we hear both the doctor's and the patient's voice will we have a medicine that is truly human.
Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Humanities; Director, The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1978.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781557531261 |
| ISBN 10 | 1557531269 |
| Title | Reconstructing Illness |
| Author | Anne Hunsaker Hawkins |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Purdue University Press |
| Year published | 1998-08-30 |
| Number of pages | 289 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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