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9780520226890

Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520226890

  • ISBN10:

    0520226895

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-08-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

The author of The Culture of Pain now 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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Introduction: How to Live Forever 1(20)
The Country of the Ill
21(29)
What Is Postmodern Illness?
50(28)
The White Noise of Health
78(29)
Reinventing Pain
107(28)
Utopian Bodies
135(29)
Neurobiology and the Obscene
164(26)
The Plot of Suffering
190(28)
Illness in the Time of Disney
218(29)
Conclusion: Narrative Bioethics 247(32)
Notes 279(56)
Index 335

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