
The Patient
Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Published on 1. March 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
203 pages
978-1-61148-346-8 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of ten essays addresses the suffering of patients and how individuals as well as the larger society understand that suffering and try to ameliorate it. Four essays are personal reflections on illness, often interspersed with analyses of literary texts and including original poetry and creative prose. These pieces reveal how suffering is intensely private, how it happens interstitially, between medical appointments, procedures, and treatments. The essays reveal how, for many people, the psychological fragmentation that typically accompanies serious disease is ultimately more threatening to one's overall well-being than the disease itself. The other six essays take a wider view of patienthood, examining it through the lens of history, politics, or culture. As a whole, this thoughtful volume attests to the rich intellectual and personal gains that result from an exploration of the condition of patienthood and what it means to become 'patient'.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cranbury
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
263 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61148-346-8 (9781611483468)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Harold Schweizer is John P. Crozer Professor of English Literature at Bucknell University. Kimberly R. Myers is associate professor in the Department of Humanities in the College of Medicine and in the Department of English at The Pennsylvania State University.