Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age

Name: Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age
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ISBN: 9780520226890

ISBN-10: 0520226895

ISBN-13: 9780520226890

Edition: 1998

Authors: David B. Morris

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We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them. Illness has changed in the postmodern era--roughly the period since World War II--as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring these changes, David B. Morris tells the fascinating story, or stories, of what goes into making the postmodern experience of illness different, perhaps unique. Even as he decries the overuse and misuse of the term "postmodern," Morris shows how brightly ideas of illness, health, and postmodernism illuminate one another in late-twentieth-century culture. Modern medicine traditionally separates…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.188



List of Illustrations


Introduction: How to Live Forever



The Country of the Ill



What Is Postmodern Illness?



The White Noise of Health



Reinventing Pain



Utopian Bodies



Neurobiology and the Obscene



The Plot of Suffering



Illness in the Time of Disney


Conclusion: Narrative Bioethics


Notes


Index