Stories of Sickness

by Howard Brody

Book Overview

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering, and medical care. Stories of Sickness explores the many dimensions of what illness means to the sufferers and to those around them, drawing on depictions of illness in great works of literature and in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195151402
• ISBN13: 9780195151404
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"