02795nam 2200613 a 450 991081684680332120200520144314.00-8166-5415-8(CKB)1000000000482423(EBL)328375(OCoLC)476125673(SSID)ssj0000262106(PQKBManifestationID)11193462(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000262106(PQKBWorkID)10270131(PQKB)10381653(MiAaPQ)EBC328375(OCoLC)191735319(MdBmJHUP)muse39970(Au-PeEL)EBL328375(CaPaEBR)ebr10212622(CaONFJC)MIL525972(EXLCZ)99100000000048242320070118d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTreatments language, politics, and the culture of illness /Lisa Diedrich1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20071 online resource (250 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4698-8 0-8166-4697-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : Doing treatments --1.Patients and biopower : disciplined bodies, regularized populations, and subjugated knowledges --2.Politicizing patienthood : ideas, experience, and affect --3.Stories for and against the self : breast cancer narratives from the United States and Britain --4.Becoming-patient : negotiating healing, desire, and belonging in doctors' narratives --5.Between two deaths : practices of witnessing --Conclusion : Toward an ethics of failure --Acknowledgments --Notes --Bibliography --Index.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, Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's ÒWhite Glasses,Ó Diedrich demonstrates how language both captures and fails to capture these Òscenes of lossÓ.SickPsychologyPatients' writingsHistory and criticismDiseases and literatureSickPsychology.Patients' writingsHistory and criticism.Diseases and literature.610Diedrich Lisa1141040MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816846803321Treatments4111941UNINA