Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture

Something. Nothing. Everything
Herausgeber: Farkas, Carol-Ann

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume tackles conflicts in the provider-patient relationship; uses the psychosomatic as a lens for theorizing the self in culture; and examines the metaphorical potential of the psychosomatic in fictional narrative. Taking an interdisciplinary and international approach, it is aimed at scholars of health, cultural studies and literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780367341503
• ISBN-10: 0367341506
• Artikelnr.: 62573203

Autorenporträt

Carol-Ann Farkas is Associate Professor of English in the School of Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS), Boston, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Psychosomatic as Nothing, Something, and Everything 1.
Psychosomatic Patients and Providers: at the Mercy of a Medical System 2.
Narrative Medicine and Fibromyalgia 3. Medically Unexplained Symptoms and
the Ethics of Diagnosis: 4. Feeding Your Feelings: Emotional Eating in
Mid-Twentieth Century America 5. Impossible Illnesses: Decolonizing
Psychosomatic Medicine 6. Narrative Coherence and Medical Explanations of
Psychosomatic Pain 7. Medicalstudentitis as a Rite of Passage in Popular
Literature 8. Women with Long-Term Exhaustion in Fictional Literature 9.
The Brute Within: 10. Poor Things