Illness and Authority 9781487536206, 9781487507411, 9781487536190

Illness and Authority: Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi 1487507410, 9781487507411

Illness and Authority examines the lived experience and early stories about St. Francis of Assisi through the lens of di

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Illness and Authority: Disability in the Life and Lives of Francis of Assisi 9781487536190

Illness and Authority is the first monograph-length study to examine a well-known medieval saint from the perspective of

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Cultural Illness and Health jq085n503

This volume, which basically is challenging assumptions underlying concepts of health for individuals and for society, o

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Sport, Mental Illness and Sociology 9781787434707

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Authority: Construction and Corrosion 9780226682518

What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations be

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Mental Illness. Progress and Prospects 9780231886468

Presents a series of lectures delivered at Columbia University in 1965 on the topic of mental illness.

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Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin's Gulag 9780300227536

A new and chilling study of lethal human exploitation in the Soviet forced labor camps, one of the pillars of Stalinist 

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Contesting Illness: Process and Practices 9781442687738

Contesting Illness offers valuable insights into the assumptions, practices, and interactions that shape illness in the

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Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness 9781474418225

Rereads Antonia White’s writing within the context of manic-depressive illness Misdiagnosed as suffering from schizophr

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Modernism and Physical Illness: Sick Books 9780198825425

T. S. Eliot memorably said that separation of the man who suffers from the mind that creates is the root of good poetry.

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