Imagining Illness
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Author | : David Serlin |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 0816648220 |
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Analyzing the visual culture of public health from the nineteenth century to the present.
Author | : Devan Stahl |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2018-01-22 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1532640293 |
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Medical imaging technologies can help diagnose and monitor patients' diseases, but they do not capture the lived experience of illness. In this volume, Devan Stahl shares her story of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis with the aid of magnetic resonance images (MRIs). Although clinically useful, Stahl did not want these images to be the primary way she or anyone else understood her disease or what it is like to live with MS. With the help of her printmaker sister, Darian Goldin Stahl, they were able to reframe these images into works of art. The result is an altogether different image of the ill body. Now, the Stahls open up their project to four additional scholars to help shed light on the meaning of illness and the impact medical imaging can have on our cultural imagination. Using their insights from the medical humanities, literature, visual culture, philosophy, and theology, the scholars in this volume advance the discourse of the ill body, adding interpretations and insights from their disciplinary fields.
Author | : Devan Stahl |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2018-01-22 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1625648375 |
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Medical imaging technologies can help diagnose and monitor patients’ diseases, but they do not capture the lived experience of illness. In this volume, Devan Stahl shares her story of being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis with the aid of magnetic resonance images (MRIs). Although clinically useful, Stahl did not want these images to be the primary way she or anyone else understood her disease or what it is like to live with MS. With the help of her printmaker sister, Darian Goldin Stahl, they were able to reframe these images into works of art. The result is an altogether different image of the ill body. Now, the Stahls open up their project to four additional scholars to help shed light on the meaning of illness and the impact medical imaging can have on our cultural imagination. Using their insights from the medical humanities, literature, visual culture, philosophy, and theology, the scholars in this volume advance the discourse of the ill body, adding interpretations and insights from their disciplinary fields.
Author | : Suzanne O'Sullivan |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Emotions |
ISBN | : 0099597853 |
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A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness. Most of us accept the way our heart flutters when we set eyes on the one we secretly admire, or the sweat on our brow as we start the presentation we do not want to give. But few of us are fully aware of how dramatic our body's reactions to emotions can sometimes be. Take Pauline, who first became ill when she was fifteen. What seemed at first to be a urinary infection became joint pain, then food intolerances, then life-threatening appendicitis. And then one day, after a routine operation, Pauline lost all the strength in her legs. Shortly after that her convulsions started. But Pauline's tests are normal; her symptoms seem to have no physical cause whatsoever. Pauline may be an extreme case, but she is by no means alone. As many as a third of men and women visiting their GP have symptoms that are medically unexplained. In most, an emotional root is suspected and yet, when it comes to a diagnosis, this is the very last thing we want to hear, and the last thing doctors want to say. In It's All in Your Head consultant neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan takes us on a journey through the very real world of psychosomatic illness. She takes us from the extreme -- from paralysis, seizures and blindness -- to more everyday problems such as tiredness and pain. Meeting her patients, she encourages us to look deep inside the human condition. There we find the secrets we are all capable of keeping from ourselves, and our age-old failure to credit the intimate and extraordinary connection between mind and body.
Author | : Jay Neugeboren |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780813532967 |
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"Imagining Robert" is the most honest book to date on the lives of the millions of families that must cope, day by day and year by year, over the course of a lifetime, with a condition for which, in most cases, there is no cure. By rendering his brother's mental illness in all its complexity and mystery, Jay Neugeboren has shown how even the grimmest of lives can be sustained by the power of love
Author | : Athena Vrettos |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804725330 |
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This book focuses on the centrality of illness—particularly psychosomatic illness—as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture. It shows how illness shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public, and how Victorians tried to understand and control their world through a process of physiological and pathological definition.
Author | : G. Rousseau |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2003-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 023052432X |
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Throughout human history illness has been socially interpreted before its range of meanings could be understood and disseminated. Writers of diverse types have been as active in constructing these meanings as doctors, yet it is only recently that literary traditions have been recognized as a rich archive for these interpretations. These essays focus on the methodological hurdles encountered in retrieving these interpretations, called 'framing' by the authors. Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History aims to explain what has been said about these interpretations and to compare their value.
Author | : Claire L. Carlin |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2005-10-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230522610 |
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The ideological underpinnings of early modern theories of contagion are dissected in this volume by an integrated team of literary scholars, cultural historians, historians of medicine and art historians. Even today, the spread of disease inspires moralizing discourse and the ostracism of groups thought responsible for contagion; the fear of illness and the desire to make sense of it are demonstrated in the current preoccupation with HIV, SARS, 'mad cow' disease, West Nile virus and avian flu, to cite but a few contemporary examples. Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe explores the nature of understanding when humanity is faced with threats to its well-being, if not to its very survival.
Author | : American Psychiatric Association |
Publisher | : American Psychiatric Publishing |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-09-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781955245180 |
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Author | : Committee on Nomenclature and Statistics American Psychiatric Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780598568939 |
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