TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morris,David B.
TI  - Illness and culture in the postmodern age
SN  - 0520208692
AV  - RA418 .M68 1998
U1  - 306.461 21
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Disease
KW  - psychology
KW  - Sociology, Medical
KW  - Anthropology, Cultural
KW  - Philosophy, Medical
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-333) and index; Country of the ill --; What is postmodern illness --; White noise of health --; Reinventing pain --; Utopian bodies --; Neurobiology and the obscene --; Plot of suffering --; Illness in the time of Disney --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction: How to Live Forever --; 1; The Country of the Ill --; 2; What Is Postmodern Illness? --; 3; The White Noise of Health --; 4; Reinventing Pain --; 5; Utopian Bodies --; 6; Neurobiology and the Obscene --; 7; The Plot of Suffering --; 8; Illness in the Time of Disney --; Conclusion: Narrative Bioethics --; Notes --; Index
N2  - "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 disease--an objectively verified disorder--from illness--a patient's subjective experience. Postmodern medicine, Morris says, can make no such clean distinction; instead, it demands a biocultural model, situating illness at the crossroads of biology and culture. Maladies such as chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder signal our awareness that there are biocultural ways of being sick.The biocultural vision of illness not only blurs old boundaries but also offers a new and infinitely promising arena for investigating both biology and culture. In many ways Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age leads us to understand our experience of the world differently."--Publisher description
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/98007092.html
ER  -