Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine – serie
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Metaphor in Illness Writing
Fight and Battle Reused
Inbunden, 2022
2270 kr
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Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need not be dropped or dismissed. Metaphors are not inherently harmful or beneficial; instead, they can be used in unexpected and creative ways. This book analyses the illness writing of contemporary …
Metaphor in Illness Writing
Fight and Battle Reused
Häftad, 2024
297 kr
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Metaphor in Illness Writing argues that even when a metaphor appears problematic and limiting, it need not be dropped or dismissed. Metaphors are not inherently harmful or beneficial; instead, they can be used in unexpected and creative ways. This book analyses the illness writing of contemporary …
Cicely Saunders and Total Pain
Holism, Narrative and Silence at the End of Life
Av Joe Wood
Inbunden, 2024
2270 kr
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Introduced in 1964, Cicely Saunders' term 'total pain' has come to epitomise the holistic ethos of hospice and palliative care. It communicates how a dying person's pain can be a whole overwhelming experience, not only physical but also psychological, social and spiritual. 'Total pain' clearly …
Cicely Saunders and Total Pain
Holism, Narrative and Silence at the End of Life
Av Joe Wood
Häftad, 2026
510 kr
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Introduced in 1964, Cicely Saunders’ term ‘total pain’ has come to epitomise the holistic ethos of hospice and palliative care. It communicates how a dying person’s pain can be a whole overwhelming experience, not only physical but also psychological, social and spiritual. ‘Total pain’ clearly …
Writing Contested Illness
Experimentation in Contemporary Women's Life Writing
Inbunden, 2025
1246 kr
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Intervening in the gnarled lineage of gender, genre and medicine, Writing Contested Illness investigates how uncertainty, doubt and dismissal, the key features of medical contestation, are mediated and transformed in women's experimental illness narratives. It discusses how a range of …
Writing Contested Illness
Experimentation in Contemporary Women's Life Writing
Häftad, 2027
289 kr
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Intervening in the gnarled lineage of gender, genre and medicine, Writing Contested Illness investigates how uncertainty, doubt and dismissal, the key features of medical contestation, are mediated and transformed in women’s experimental illness narratives. It discusses how a range of …
Mothering Care in the Contemporary Novel
Unknown Others, Imaginative Labour and the Ethics of Care
Inbunden, 2026
1273 kr
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Examining contemporary depictions of less-than-adequate mothers, Michelle Chiang reveals how care relations are fundamentally othering experiences, even between a mother and a child. Employing maternal theory and phenomenological philosophy as lenses to analyse the selected novels, Chiang offers an …
Critical Narratives of Recovery
Rejecting Repair, Restoration and Resolution
Av Avril Tynan
Inbunden, 2026
1273 kr
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Recovery narratives may appear to be uniform, charting an inspirational arc from tragedy to triumph. Critical Narratives of Recovery, however, explores narratives of recovery that challenge and critique the conventions of closure and catharsis. Distinguishing narratives of illness from narratives …
