Diseases And Disorders In Contemporary Fiction

Author : James Peacock,Tim Lustig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135078621

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Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction by James Peacock,Tim Lustig Pdf

The essays in this collection address the current preoccupation with neurological conditions and disorders in contemporary literature by British and American writers. The book places these fictional treatments within a broader cultural and historical context, exploring such topics as the two cultures debate, the neurological turn, postmodernism and the post-postmodern, and responses to September 11th. Considering a variety of materials including mainstream literary fiction, the graphic novel, popular fiction, autobiographical writing, film, and television, contributors consider the contemporary dimensions of the interface between the sciences and humanities, developing the debate about the post-postmodern as a new humanism or a return to realism and investigating questions of form and genre, and of literary continuities and discontinuities. Further, the essays discuss contemporary writers’ attempts to engage the relation between the individual and the social, looking at the relation between the "syndrome syndrome" (referring to the prevalence in contemporary literature of neurological phenomena evident at the biological level) and existing work in the field of trauma studies (where explanations tend to have taken a psychoanalytical form), allowing for perspectives that question some of the assumptions that have marked both these fields. The current literary preoccupation with neurological conditions presents us with a new and distinctive form of trauma literature, one concerned less with psychoanalysis than with the physical and evolutionary status of human beings.

Author : Anne Whitehead
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748686193

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Medicine and Empathy in Contemporary British Fiction by Anne Whitehead Pdf

Examines tourists' aesthetic responses in the context of US nation formation.

Author : Bennett Kravitz
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443820905

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Representations of Illness in Literature and Film by Bennett Kravitz Pdf

This book examines the ways that various syndromes, disorders and diseases appear in modern literature and film. What is especially interesting is that rather than be portrayed as an insurmountable handicap, limitation becomes the hero of the novels and films under discussion. What once would have been rejected as flawed, ill, diseased or unworthy has now earned the opportunity to be included into mainstream society. By accepting the other, these works of art allow previous outcasts of society into the mainstream to affirm their moral worth, skill and intelligence. Representations of Illness in Literature and Film analyzes the deconstruction of the above mentioned syndromes, disorders and diseases to describe their reception in the 21st-century, postmodern world.

Author : J. Bogousslavsky,S. Dieguez
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783318022711

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Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film by J. Bogousslavsky,S. Dieguez Pdf

An amazing and fascinating look at neurological conditions in fiction and film Classical and modern literature is full of patients with interesting neurological, cognitive, or psychiatric diseases, often including detailed and accurate descriptions, which suggests the authors were inspired by observations of real people. In many cases these literary portrayals of diseases even predate their formal identification by medical science. Fictional literature encompasses nearly all kinds of disorders affecting the nervous system, with certain favorites such as memory loss and behavioral syndromes. There are even unique observations that cannot be found in scientific and clinical literature because of the lack of appropriate studies. Not only does literature offer a creative and humane look at disorders of the brain and mind, but just as authors have been inspired by medicine and real disorders, clinicians have also gained knowledge from literary depictions of the disorders they encounter in their daily practice. This book provides an amazing and fascinating look at neurological conditions, patients, and doctors in literature and film in a way which is both nostalgic and novel.

Author : Venanzio Raspa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110321128

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Meinongian Issues in Contemporary Italian Philosophy by Venanzio Raspa Pdf

The traditional and lively interest in Meinong’s philosophy and related topics among Italian philosophers gives rise to this volume of MEINONG STUDIES. As more than an introduction, Venanzio Raspa presents an enlightening historical presentation of Meinong’s reception in Italy from his lifetime to the present day. Riccardo Martinelli offers a reconstruction of the Meinongian theory of musical objects of higher order. Francesca Modenato gives the outlines of Meinong’s object theory as a theory of the pure object, separating it from ontology and associating it rather with gnoseology. From a less historical than systematic-analytic perspective, Andrea Bottani deals with incomplete objects, Mario Alai investigates the problem of propositions concerning non-existent objects, and Carola Barbero proposes a realistic theory of the emotions aroused by reading literary texts. As themes related to Meinongian ones, Alberto Voltolini discusses the concept of existence as a property, Francesco Orilia validates an intuition of Meinong by adopting an approach called 'fact infinitism', and Guido Bonino deals with Gustav Bergmann’s interpretation of Meinong’s ontology. Das traditionelle und lebhafte Interesse italienischer Philosophen an Meinongs Philosophie und damit zusammenhängenden Themen gibt Anlaß für diesen Band der MEINONG STUDIEN. Weit über die Anforderungen an ein Eineitung hinausgehend, präsentiert Venanzio Raspa eine erhellende Studie der Rezeption Meinongs in Italien von seinen Lebzeiten bis zum heutigen Tag. Riccardo Martinelli rekonstruiert Meinongs Theorie musikalischer Objekte höherer Ordnung und Francesca Modenato umreißt Meinongs Objekttheorie (als Theorie reiner Objekte), welche sie eher der Gnoseologie denn der Ontologie zuordnet. Aus einer weniger historischen als systematisch-analytischen Perspektive befassen sich Andrea Bottani mit unvollständigen Objekten, Mario Alai mit der Frage nicht-existierende Objekte betreffender Aussagen, und Carola Barbero präsentiert eine realistische Theorie von Emotionen, die durch die Lektüre literarischer Texte erweckt werden. Als Meinong-bezogene Themen diskutiert Alberto Voltolini den Begriff der Existenz als Eigenschaft, Francesco Orilia bestätigt in seinem 'Fakteninfinitismus' genannten Zugang eine Meinongsche Intuition, und Guido Bonino befaßt sich mit Gustav Bergmanns Interpretation der Meinongschen Ontologie.

Author : Cristina Garrigós
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000410624

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Alzheimer’s Disease in Contemporary U.S. Fiction by Cristina Garrigós Pdf

This volume seeks to bring readers to a deeper understanding of contemporary cultural and social configurations of Alzheimer’s disease by analyzing 21st-century U.S. novels in which the disease plays a key narrative role. Via analysis of selected works, Garrigós considers how the erasure of memory in a person with Alzheimer’s affects our idea of the identity of that person and their sense of belonging to a group. Starting out from three different types of memory (individual, social and cultural), the study focuses on the narrative strategies that authors use to configure how the disease is perceived and represented. This study is significant not only because of what the texts reveal about those with Alzheimer’s, but also for what they say about us - about the authors and readers who are producing and consuming these texts, about how we see this disease, and what our attitudes to it say about contemporary U.S. society.

Author : Peter Twohig,Vera Kalitzkus
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9789042024052

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Social Studies of Health, Illness and Disease by Peter Twohig,Vera Kalitzkus Pdf

The studies of the human being in health and illness and how he can be cared for is concerned with more than the biological aspects and thus calls for a broader perspective. Social sciences and medical humanities give insight into the context and conditions of being ill, caring for the ill, and understanding disease in a respective socio-cultural frame. This book brings together scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 4th global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2005. This volume will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care provider who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which we can understand health, illness and disease. It has been brought to our attention that in a chapter in this volume "Media Treatment of Organ Donation: A Case Study in Switzerland" By Peter J. Schulz direct reference and citation of the works of other scholars is often inconsistent and in some cases totally lacking. While we do not believe that it was the intention of the author of the article to misappropriate other persons' material, we do admit that the chapter does not meet standards currently expected of an academic publication. We regret any misappropriation of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions in our publications and will remain vigilant to prevent this recurring in the future. We give notice that the chapter has been retracted and will not appear in any future editions of the book. Brill, February 2016

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Medicine
ISBN : MINN:31951002773042B

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Current List of Medical Literature by Anonim Pdf

Includes section, "Recent book acquisitions" (varies: Recent United States publications) formerly published separately by the U.S. Army Medical Library.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Sexually transmitted diseases
ISBN : MINN:31951002710961M

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Current Literature on Venereal Disease by Anonim Pdf

Author : Katsura Sako,Sarah Falcus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000536522

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Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care by Katsura Sako,Sarah Falcus Pdf

This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) and literature (novel, short story, children’s picturebook) but also in the fields of theatre performance, photography and music. The collection has a broad geographical scope, with case studies and primary texts from Europe and North America but also from Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Argentina and Mexico. The volume asks what care, autonomy and dependence may mean and how these may be inflected by social and cultural specificities. Ultimately, it invites us to reflect on our relations to others as we face the global and local challenges of care in ageing societies.

Author : Peter Barry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040679883

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Issues in Contemporary Critical Theory by Peter Barry Pdf

Examines the issues which have provoked the current 'crisis' in literary studies--including the notion of the 'death of the author', the reader's role in 'creating' the text, the nature of literary representation itself, and the challeng offered to conventional approaches by stylistics and deconstruction. Debate on these issues has transformed literary criticism since the 1960s.

Author : Kelvin Kam-Lung Chong,Ilaria Muller,Huifang Zhou,Marian Elizabeth Ludgate
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782889762071

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Mechanisms and Novel Therapies in Graves’ Orbitopathy: Current Update by Kelvin Kam-Lung Chong,Ilaria Muller,Huifang Zhou,Marian Elizabeth Ludgate Pdf

Author : Kia Jane Richmond
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781440857386

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Mental Illness in Young Adult Literature by Kia Jane Richmond Pdf

This book explores how mental illness is portrayed in 21st-century young adult fiction and how selected works can help teachers, librarians, and mental health professionals to more effectively address the needs of students combating mental illness. It offers extensive analysis of contemporary young adult fiction featuring youth with mental illness to help school and youth services librarians make informed collection development and readers' advisory decisions; examines the symptoms and warning signs of mental illness in adolescents in addition to how various disorders are diagnosed and treated; offers strategies for teachers and librarians to integrate quality texts into middle and high school curricula and into community initiatives aimed at confronting the stigma associated with mental illness; follows a standardized chapter format that makes it easy for readers to learn about the books and the mental illnesses they highlight; [and] provides an extended list of resources at the end of each chapter that includes additional young adult fiction and nonfiction as well as adult fiction texts.

Author : John Oliver Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Indic poetry (English)
ISBN : UOM:39015033143127

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Absent Authority, Issues in Contemporary Indian English Criticism by John Oliver Perry Pdf

Criticism in English, by Indic critics, chiefly of 20th century Indic English poetry; a study.

Author : Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030465845

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Neo-Victorian Madness by Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres Pdf

Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media investigates contemporary fiction, cinema and television shows set in the Victorian period that depict mad murderers, lunatic doctors, social dis/ease and madhouses as if many Victorians were "mad." Such portraits demand a "rediagnosing" of mental illness that was often reduced to only female hysteria or a general malaise in nineteenth-century renditions. This collection of essays explores questions of neo-Victorian representations of moral insanity, mental illness, disturbed psyches or non-normative imaginings as well as considers the important issues of legal righteousness, social responsibility or methods of restraint and corrupt incarcerations. The chapters investigate the self-conscious re-visions, legacies and lessons of nineteenth-century discourses of madness and/or those persons presumed mad rediagnosed by present-day (neo-Victorian) representations informed by post-nineteenth-century psychological insights.