Treatments language, politics, and the culture of illness / Lisa Diedrich.

Author/creator Diedrich, Lisa
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
Descriptionxxiv, 224 p. ; 23 cm.
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Contents Introduction : Doing treatments -- 1. Patients and biopower : disciplined bodies, regularized populations, and subjugated knowledges -- 2. Politicizing patienthood : ideas, experience, and affect -- 3. Stories for and against the self : breast cancer narratives from the United States and Britain -- 4. Becoming-patient : negotiating healing, desire, and belonging in doctors' narratives -- 5. Between two deaths : practices of witnessing -- Conclusion : Toward an ethics of failure -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
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LCCN 2007001734
ISBN9780816646975 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816646982 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN081664697X (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0816646988 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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