Recovering bodies :
Couser, G. Thomas.
Recovering bodies : illness, disability, and life-writing / G. Thomas Couser. - Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, �1997. - 1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages) - Wisconsin studies in American autobiography . - Wisconsin studies in American autobiography. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.
Introduction: Human Conditions -- Illness, Disability, and Life Writing -- Medical Discourse and Subjectivity -- Self-Reconstruction: Personal Narratives of Breast Cancer -- HIV/AIDS and Its Stories -- Crossing (Out) the Border: Autobiography and Physical Disability -- Signs of Life: Deafness and Personal Narrative -- Epilogue: The Value of Body Stories. Machine generated contents note: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
"A compelling look at personal narratives of HIV/AIDS, breast cancer paralysis, and deafness, Recovering Bodies examines many forms of life writing - including memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, and essays - to illuminate the ways in which these narratives address the stigma of illness and disability. G. Thomas Couser shows that such books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are instead a means for individuals to reclaim their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse, by telling their stories in their own terms." "Couser considers why and under what circumstances individuals choose to write about illness or disability; what role plot plays in such narratives; how closure is achieved; who assumes the prerogative of narration; which conditions are most often represented; and which literary conventions lend themselves to representing particular conditions. By tracing the development of new subgenres of personal narrative in our time, this book explores how explicit consideration of illness and disability has enriched the repertoire of life writing. In addition, Couser's discussion of medical discourse joins the current debate about whether the biomedical model is entirely conducive to humane care for ill and disabled people." "With its sympathetic critique of the testimony of those most affected by these conditions, Recovering Bodies contributes to an understanding of the relations among bodily dysfunction, cultural conventions, and identity in contemporary America."--Jacket.
English.
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Sick--Biography--History and criticism.--United States
People with disabilities--Biography--History and criticism.--United States
Sick--Psychology.--United States
People with disabilities--Psychology.--United States
Autobiography.
Biography as a literary form.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
Breast Neoplasms.
Disabled Persons.
Persons With Hearing Impairments.
MEDICAL--Evidence-Based Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL--Clinical Medicine.
Autobiography.
Biography as a literary form.
People with disabilities--Psychology.
Sick--Biography.
Sick--Psychology.
Clinical Psychology.
Psychiatry.
Health & Biological Sciences.
United States.
Autobiographies.
Autobiography.
Personal Narrative.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
R726.5 / .C73 1997eb
616/.001/9
1997 M-102 WC 503.7 / C867r 1997
Recovering bodies : illness, disability, and life-writing / G. Thomas Couser. - Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, �1997. - 1 online resource (xvi, 314 pages) - Wisconsin studies in American autobiography . - Wisconsin studies in American autobiography. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index.
Introduction: Human Conditions -- Illness, Disability, and Life Writing -- Medical Discourse and Subjectivity -- Self-Reconstruction: Personal Narratives of Breast Cancer -- HIV/AIDS and Its Stories -- Crossing (Out) the Border: Autobiography and Physical Disability -- Signs of Life: Deafness and Personal Narrative -- Epilogue: The Value of Body Stories. Machine generated contents note: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
"A compelling look at personal narratives of HIV/AIDS, breast cancer paralysis, and deafness, Recovering Bodies examines many forms of life writing - including memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, and essays - to illuminate the ways in which these narratives address the stigma of illness and disability. G. Thomas Couser shows that such books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are instead a means for individuals to reclaim their bodies (or those of loved ones) from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse, by telling their stories in their own terms." "Couser considers why and under what circumstances individuals choose to write about illness or disability; what role plot plays in such narratives; how closure is achieved; who assumes the prerogative of narration; which conditions are most often represented; and which literary conventions lend themselves to representing particular conditions. By tracing the development of new subgenres of personal narrative in our time, this book explores how explicit consideration of illness and disability has enriched the repertoire of life writing. In addition, Couser's discussion of medical discourse joins the current debate about whether the biomedical model is entirely conducive to humane care for ill and disabled people." "With its sympathetic critique of the testimony of those most affected by these conditions, Recovering Bodies contributes to an understanding of the relations among bodily dysfunction, cultural conventions, and identity in contemporary America."--Jacket.
English.
0585136181 9780585136189 9780299155636 0299155633 9780299155605 0299155609 9780299155643 0299155641
9780299155605
9786612424120
2DE96766-565E-45BC-86ED-659F258C9346 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Sick--Biography--History and criticism.--United States
People with disabilities--Biography--History and criticism.--United States
Sick--Psychology.--United States
People with disabilities--Psychology.--United States
Autobiography.
Biography as a literary form.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
Breast Neoplasms.
Disabled Persons.
Persons With Hearing Impairments.
MEDICAL--Evidence-Based Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL--Clinical Medicine.
Autobiography.
Biography as a literary form.
People with disabilities--Psychology.
Sick--Biography.
Sick--Psychology.
Clinical Psychology.
Psychiatry.
Health & Biological Sciences.
United States.
Autobiographies.
Autobiography.
Personal Narrative.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
R726.5 / .C73 1997eb
616/.001/9
1997 M-102 WC 503.7 / C867r 1997