Literature and Medicine. Volume eight: The cultures of medicine.

8vo. x, 182 pp. Brown hardcover. Ownership signature of Arthur L. Frank. Fine. CONTENTS: CONTENTS: Editors' Column, Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi and Robert W. Daly Lu Hsun and Maxine Hong Kingston: Medicine as a Symbol in Chinese and Chinese American Literature Alfred S. Wang Emile Zola's Lourdes: Land of Healing and Rupture, by Barbara Corrado Pope The Buddhist Mandala, by Richard B. Pilgrim Necessary Fictions: Healing Encounters with a North American Saint, by James J. Preston The Cult of the Saints and the Reimagination of the Space and Time of Sickness in Twentieth-Century American Catholicism, by Robert A. Orsi The Poetry and Drama of Healing: The Iroquoian Condolence Ritual and the Navajo Night Chant, by Jarold Ramsey Coping with Words and Song: The New Orleans Jazz Funeral, by Marian Gray Secundy Lady Rokujo's Ghost: Spirit Possession, Buddhism, and Healing in Japanese Literature, by Nancy J. Barnes The Hernia Operation, by Elias Papadimitrakopoulos, Translated from the Greek by John Taylor Characterology: Hapsburg Empire to Third Reich, by Katherine Arens Medical Sports Fitness: An Ancient Parody of Greek Medicine, by Robert Brophy and Mary O'Reilly Brophy Instructions to the Patient, by Memye Curtis Tucker Book Reviews: Rudolph M. Bell, Holy Anorexia-John H. Valentine, Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi James Dow, The Shaman's Touch: Otomi Indian Symbolic Healing- by Daniel Merkur David Eisenberg, with Thomas Lee Wright, Encounters with Qi: Exploring Chinese Medicine- by Robert W. Daly. David M. Feldman, Health and Medicine in the Jewish Tradition- by Neal Turk Stanley Hauerwas, Suffering Presence: Theological Reflections on Medicine, the Mentally Handicapped, and the Church- by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Year: 1989

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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