Illness as Narrative

by Ann Jurecic

Book Overview

For most of literary history, personal confessions about illness were considered too intimate to share publicly. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a series of events set the stage for the emergence of the illness narrative. The increase of chronic disease, the transformation of medicine into big business, the women s health movement, the AIDS/HIV pandemic, the advent of inexpensive paperbacks, and the rise of self-publishing all contributed to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822961903
• ISBN13: 9780822961901
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"