Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography, Second Edition

by Anne Hunsaker Hawkins

Book Overview

Serious illness and mortality, those most universal, unavoidable, and frightening of human experiences, are the focus of this pioneering study which has been hailed as a telling and provocative commentary on our times. As modern medicine has become more scientific and dispassionate, a new literary genre has emerged: pathography, the personal narrative concerning illness, treatment, and sometimes death. Hawkins's sensitive reading of numerous pathographies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557531269
• ISBN13: 9781557531261
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"