Contemporary Cultural Studies in Illness, Health and Medicine – serie
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2 116 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 North American writers who reimagine and reappropriate the supposedly harmful metaphor 'illness is a fight' and shows how Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde, Anatole Broyard, David Foster Wallace and other writers turn the fight metaphor into a space of agency, resistance, self-knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. It joins a conversation in Medical Humanities about alternatives to the predominance of narrative and responds to the call for more metaphor literacy and metaphor competence.
285 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 North American writers who reimagine and reappropriate the supposedly harmful metaphor 'illness is a fight' and shows how Susan Sontag, Audre Lorde, Anatole Broyard, David Foster Wallace and other writers turn the fight metaphor into a space of agency, resistance, self-knowledge and aesthetic pleasure. It joins a conversation in Medical Humanities about alternatives to the predominance of narrative and responds to the call for more metaphor literacy and metaphor competence.
Cicely Saunders and Total Pain
Holism, Narrative and Silence at the End of Life
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
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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 summarises Saunders' whole-person, multidisciplinary outlook but is it a phenomenon, an intervention framework, a care approach or something else? This book disregards the idea that Saunders' phrase has one coherent meaning and instead explores the multiple interpretations now current in contemporary professional discourse. Using close reading of Saunders' extensive publications, as well as archival evidence and Saunders' own personal library, it situates the current usage of 'total pain' in wider histories of clinical holism, questions its similarity to later ideas of narrative medicine, and explores how it might express the ambiguities of bearing witness to pain and vulnerability when someone is dying.
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Cicely Saunders and Total Pain
Holism, Narrative and Silence at the End of Life
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
271 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 summarises Saunders’ whole-person, multidisciplinary outlook but is it a phenomenon, an intervention framework, a care approach – or something else? This book disregards the idea that Saunders’ phrase has one coherent meaning and instead explores the multiple interpretations now current in contemporary professional discourse. Using close reading of Saunders’ extensive publications, as well as archival evidence and Saunders’ own personal library, it situates the current usage of ‘total pain’ in wider histories of clinical holism, questions its similarity to later ideas of narrative medicine, and explores how it might express the ambiguities of bearing witness to pain and vulnerability when someone is dying.
Writing Contested Illness
Experimentation in Contemporary Women's Life Writing
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 292 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 autobiographical experimentation in emerging and increasingly common subgenres like autofiction, autotheory, experimental memoir and the lyric essay, are creating productive new avenues for contested illnesses to be represented. These illnesses, which range in this book across hysteria, eating disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and chronic Lyme disease, have been subject to constrictive medical practices, rendering the conditions illegitimate, under-studied and under-diagnosed. In observing how such narratives identify the rifts caused by medicalised contestation and identify key sites of repair within this sphere, this book argues that experimental life writing can be its own first-hand, affective and embodied source of medical knowledge.
Mothering Care in the Contemporary Novel
Unknown Others, Imaginative Labour and the Ethics of Care
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 204 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 account of the imaginative labour that goes into caring for an other who is not entirely knowable. She argues that carers must imaginatively labour to confront the limits of their knowledge in care relations. When carers fail to exercise a dynamic imagination to confront the limits of their knowledge, they risk losing sight of the cared-for as an individual inhabiting time orientations and contextual spaces that might differ from theirs. In doing so, care may collapse into a search for certainty and control, which almost always entails the violence of coercion.
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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 of recovery, the latter detailing a protracted period of time after illness, this book contests the telos of the hegemonic recovery narrative. Drawing on both memoirs and scholarship that acknowledge the ambiguous and incomplete nature of recovery, the analysis counterbalances influential approaches towards narrative as reparative and even curative. Recovery, it is argued, does not mark the conclusion of a well-told tale but invites the question, ‘what now?’ The first book-length critique of narratives of recovery, this study analyses a range of twenty-first-century anglophone memoirs in print and other media, including film and graphic narratives, to argue that, while recovery may well be possible, it is not necessarily complete, nor restorative, nor even good.