The Grey Zone of health and illness /
With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, the book identif...
| Основен автор: | Blum, Alan, 1935- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Bristol, UK ; Chicago :
Intellect,
2011.
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| Серия: |
Culture, disease, and well-being ;
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=342804 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Grey Zone in Health and Illness. |
Съдържание:
- Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Grey Zone as a Primordial Figure: Greek Origins; 2. Ambiguity as a Social Phenomenon: Reshaping the Greeks; 3. The Elemental Vision of the Split; 4. The Official History and the Unwritten Text; 5. The Relationship of Knowledge to Life; 6. The City of Pigs as Travesty; 7. Health and the City; 8. On Being Old; 9. The Formula: Medicalization and Its Guises; 10. Prosthetics; 11. The Recurrence of the Body; 12. Moods of Being; 13. Conclusion; References.