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Informationen zum Autor David B. Morris ! winner of a 1992 PEN award for The Culture of Pain (California! 1991) and author of the award-winning Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984)! lives and writes in Albuquerque! New Mexico. His most recent book is Earth Warrior: Overboard with Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (1995). Klappentext "Morris weaves a seamless web from Nietzsche to Warhol! convincing us that postmodernism is not a trendy label but a necessary context for talk about health and illness! medicine and suffering. . . . Anyone who wants to understand why people get sick differently in different cultures! and what's making us sick here and now! will be refreshed and enlightened by this book."-Arthur W. Frank! author of The Wounded Storyteller "Readers will come away excited by new ideas! new relations among old issues! new readings! and new insights into illness! medicine! and society."-Arthur Kleinman! author of Writing at the Margin Zusammenfassung 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, this title tells the fascinating story of what goes into making the postmodern experience of illness different, perhaps unique. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
