Recovering Bodies by Gthomas Couser

Recovering Bodies by Gthomas Couser

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This text focuses on the writing by and about people with illness or disability. Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies, or those of loved ones, from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse.

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Recovering Bodies by Gthomas Couser

This text focuses on the writing by and about people with illness or disability. Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies, or those of loved ones, from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse.
Couser, G. Thomas: - G. Thomas Couser is Professor of English at Hofstra University and the author of Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing; Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography; and American Autobiography: The Prophetic Mode.
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ISBN 13 9780299155643
ISBN 10 0299155641
Title Recovering Bodies
Author Gthomas Couser
Series Wisconsin Studies In American Autobiography
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Year published 1997-11-30
Number of pages 340
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