Treatments language, politics, and the culture of illness

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ISBN: 9780816654154 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0816654158 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xxiv, 224 p.)
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

General Note:	Terms of use - CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-user.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : Doing treatments -- 1. Patients and biopower : disciplined bodies, regularized populations, and subjugated knowledges -- 2. Politicizing patienthood : ideas, experience, and affect -- 3. Stories for and against the self : breast cancer narratives from the United States and Britain -- 4. Becoming-patient : negotiating healing, desire, and belonging in doctors' narratives -- 5. Between two deaths : practices of witnessing -- Conclusion : Toward an ethics of failure -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.