Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age.

8vo. [x], 345, [1] pp. Index. Pictorial wrappers. Near fine. ISBN: 0520226895 "We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern eraroughly the period since World War IIas dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring these changes, David B. Morris tells the fascinating story, or stories, of what goes into making the postmodern experience of illness different, perhaps unique. Even as he decries the overuse and misuse of the term "postmodern," Morris shows how brightly ideas of illness, health, and postmodernism illuminate one another in late-twentieth-century culture. Modern medicine traditionally separates diseasean objectively verified disorderfrom illnessa patient's subjective experience. Postmodern medicine, Morris says, can make no such clean distinction; instead, it demands a biocultural model, situating illness at the crossroads of biology and culture. Maladies such as chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder signal our awareness that there are biocultural ways of being sick. The biocultural vision of illness not only blurs old boundaries but also offers a new and infinitely promising arena for investigating both biology and culture. In many ways Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age leads us to understand our experience of the world differently." University of California Press.

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ISBN: 0520226895

ISBN-13: 9780520226890

Publisher: University of California Press, 2000.

Year: 2000

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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