Illness, Bodies and Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Front Cover......Page 1
Inside Cover......Page 2
Advisory Board......Page 3
ISBN......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
PART I: Personalising Illness Experience......Page 15
Illness:  The Redifinition of Self and Relationships......Page 0
Cancer and the Idea of the Self: Philosophy, Memoir and Medical Trauma......Page 29
Perceptions of Pain in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature: Personal and Public Narratives in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins......Page 41
Empathic Witnessing in Patient Pathographies......Page 51
PART II:  Bodies and Embodiment......Page 61
The Fit of Health: Embodied Health Ideals and Its Implications......Page 63
Some Thoughts on Physicians and Metaphysicians......Page 71
Beyond Biomedicalsation: Mind/Body Models of Health and Illness......Page 81
Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures......Page 91
Writing Over the Illness:  The Symbolic Representation of Albinism......Page 105
The Aesthetics of Self-Representation in Pregnancy and Childbirth......Page 113
PART III:  Myths and Metaphors......Page 125
Finding Meaning through Metaphors: Following a Narrative Thread from Experience to Research to Classroom......Page 127
Metaphors of Health, Illness and Disease in Margaret Atwood's Fiction......Page 137
Devils, Serpents, Zebras: Metaphors of Illness in Swedish Literature on Eating Disorders......Page 149
Constructing a Consumptive Myth: Medical Discourse and the Representation of Tuberculosis......Page 159
PART IV: Meaning and Medicine......Page 167
Methods of Diagnosis: The Path towards Dialogue......Page 177
Disease in the Information Age......Page 185
The Media Manufacturing the Sense of Health, Illness and Disease: Health Coverage in Turkish Newspapers......Page 193
Debates over the SSRI Antidepressants: Prozac, Seroxat and the Paradoxes of Evidence-based Medicine......Page 211
Botulinum Toxin Facial Treatment: Are there Specific Influences on Women's Communication Processes?......Page 219
Evaluating Risk and Pain in Elective Cosmetic Surgery......Page 231
PART V: Disability and Desirability......Page 241
Genetics, Disability and Symbolic Harm......Page 243
Making Sense of Desease, Disability and Trauma: Normative and Disruptive Studies......Page 251
Disability, Reproductive Interventions and Moral Consistency......Page 259
Desirability and Its Discontents: Young People's Responses to Media Images of Health, Beauty and Physical Perfection......Page 265
Selling the Social as Object: Online Donor Banking and the Standardisation of Semen......Page 279
Alcoholism: Correction and the Changing Notions of Recovery......Page 293
PART VI: Ethics, Autonomy, Justice and Rights......Page 303
On My Own: Where Autonomy Ends and Justice Begins......Page 305
The Production of Health and Illness in Discourses: The Case of the German Healthcare System......Page 315
From Policy to Practice: Recruitment of African Nurses in the UK......Page 325
Health and Ethical Choices in Economics......Page 337
Qualifying for the Right to Die-A Dubious Privelege: Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill......Page 347
Reconciling Discretion Jurisdiction and Equity: Funding of Health Services in Canada......Page 355