Autobiography of a Disease

Blending a history of the Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) bacterium with auto-ethnographic writing, Autobiography of a Disease documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics.

List of contents

Foreword
Prelude
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Coda
Afterword
Acknowledgements

About the author

Patrick Anderson is Associate Professor in the departments of Communication, Ethnic Studies, and Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of So Much Wasted and the co-editor (with Jisha Menon) of Violence Performed.

Summary

Blending a history of the Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) bacterium with auto-ethnographic writing, Autobiography of a Disease documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Anderson, Patrick (University of California Anderson, Anderson Patrick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138744509
• ISBN: 978-1-138-74450-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; MEDICAL / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Nursing, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Diseases & disorders, Communication Studies, Medical Sociology, Diseases and disorders, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Social research and statistics, Infectious and contagious diseases