Interdisciplinary perspectives on health, illness and disease / edited by Peter L. Twohig and Vera Kalitzkus.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004.
Description
195 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references.
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Sanctity of life or the sanctification of life? : a critical re-assessment of Jewish medical ethics / Michael Weingarten
  • Beyond the body beautiful : the uses and dangers of Nietzsche's rethinking of health and illness / Richard A. Ingram
  • Mechanized bodies or embodied persons? : alternative models of the patient's body in modern medicine / James A. Marcum
  • Mothers and madness : the media representation of postpartum psychosis / Nicola Goc
  • Becoming disabled through sport : narrative types, metaphors and the reconstruction of selves / Brett Smith and Andrew C. Sparkes
  • Bring me sunshine : the effect of clown-doctors on the mood and attitudes of healthcare staff / Bernie Warren.
  • Narrativising the body : fragmentation and unification in Jed Mercurio's Bodies / Jarmila Mildorf
  • Possibilities of story : Jacques Ferron's "Little William" and the teaching of obstetrics / Betty Bednarski
  • Patient narrative videos : learning from the illness experience / Karen Christopher and Gregory Makoul
  • Salutogenesis in general practice : how to use the potential of doctor-patient communication to promote health / Ottomar Bahrs ... [et al.]
  • Ars moriendi : the lost art of dying / Jon E. Cutler
  • Art of dying : Hodler's cycle of paintings of Valentine Godé-Darel / Harold Schweizer.
ISBN
9042019735 (pbk.)
OCLC
57223658
RCP
H - S
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