Autobiography of a disease / Patrick Anderson.

Author
Anderson, Patrick, 1974- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Description
ix, 229 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Rare books genre
    Series
    Writing lives--ethnographic narratives [More in this series]
    Summary note
    "[Thsi book] documents, in an experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics. The narrative is based primarly on the author's ... collapse into a coma and long hospitalization thirteen years ago; but it has also been crafted from twelve years of research on the history of microbiology, literary representations of illness and medical treatments, cultural analysis of MRSA in the popular press, and extended autoethnographic work on medicalization. ... [It] blends the genres of storytelling, ethnography and memoir ... [It] is told from the perspective of a bacterial cluster. This orientation is intended to represent the distribution of perspectives on illness, disability, and pain across subjective centers - from patient to monitoring machine, from body to cell, from caregiver to cared-for - and thus makes sense of illness only in a social context."--Back cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN
    • 9781138744486 ((hbk.))
    • 1138744484 ((hbk.))
    • 9781138744509 ((pbk.))
    • 1138744506 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2016058684
    OCLC
    972200042
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