Illness and culture in the postmodern age /
The author of this book argues that postmodern illness is created at the interconnection of biology and culture. Morris analyzes the distinctive experience of illness in our time, taking cultural studies into a new area called 'biocultural' studies.
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1998.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501123 |
Sumário:
- Country of the ill
- What is postmodern illness
- White noise of health
- Reinventing pain
- Utopian bodies
- Neurobiology and the obscene
- Plot of suffering
- Illness in the time of Disney.