The tapestry of health, illness and disease.(Brief article)(Book review)

9789042025158

The tapestry of health, illness and disease.

Ed. by Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig.

Editions Rodopi

2009

191 pages

$58.00

Hardcover

At the interface; probing the boundaries

R723

These nine essays, taken from the fifth conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease" held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2006, explain the interconnections between literature, politics, communities and biomedicine, and the multiple subjectivities of disease and addiction. Because they cover new ground and include new interpretations and theories about how humans perceive and live with health, disease, and health care, the essays cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. While they respect medicine and its intentions, they also closely and sensitively consider the ways individuals, cultures, and societies locate the conditions of bodies in overarching theory as well as daily practice.

([c]2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)

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