Treatments : Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness.

Lisa Diedrich considers illness narratives, demonstrating that these texts not only recount symptoms but also describe illness as an event that reflects wider cultural contexts, including race, gender, class, and sexuality. Looking at narratives including Susan Sontag's Illness As Metaphor, Aud...

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Author / Creator: Diedrich, Lisa.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
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