Illness and culture in the postmodern age /

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Author / Creator:	Morris, David B.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998.
Description:	1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Diseases -- Social aspects. Social medicine -- Philosophy. Postmodernism. Disease -- psychology. Sociology, Medical. Anthropology, Cultural. Philosophy, Medical. Social Medicine. Diseases -- Social aspects. Postmodernism. Social medicine -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11111142

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ISBN:	9780520926240 0520926242 0585308810 9780585308814 0520214412 9780520214415 0520208692 9780520208698 0520226895 9780520226890
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-333) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	The author of this book argues that postmodern illness is created at the interconnection of biology and culture. Morris analyzes the distinctive experience of illness in our time, taking cultural studies into a new area called 'biocultural' studies.
Other form:	Print version: Morris, David B. Illness and culture in the postmodern age. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998 0520208692

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