In the Kingdom of the Sick A Social History of Chronic Illness in America

Name: In the Kingdom of the Sick A Social History of Chronic Illness in America
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ISBN: 9780802718013

ISBN-10: 0802718019

ISBN-13: 9780802718013

Edition: 2013

Authors: Laurie Edwards

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Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live with chronic illness, accounting for nearly three-quarters of all health care dollars, and untold pain and disability.There has been an alarming rise in illnesses that defy diagnosis through clinical tests or have no known cure. Millions of people, especially women, with illnesses such as irritable bowel syndrome, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue syndrome face skepticism from physicians and the…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Walker & Company
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Laurie Edwards is a health journalist whose essays and articles have been published in the "Boston Globe" and on several online sites, including ChronicBabe.com. Her blog, www.achronicdose.com, was named one of the top ten sites for chronic pain by the Health Central Network. Edwards teaches writing at Northeastern University and lives with her husband in Boston, Massachusetts. This is her first book.



Introduction



From Plato to Polio Chronic Disease in Historical Context



An Awakening Medicine and Illness in Post-World War Two America



Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness



The Women's Health Movement and Patient Empowerment



Culture, Consumerism, and Character Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s



A Slight Hysterical Tendency Revisiting "The Girl Who Cried Pain"



Into the Fray Patients in the Digital Age



Participatory Medicine and Transparency



What Future, at What Cost?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index