Illness Narratives : Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition 9781541674608, 9781541647121

Play and the Human Condition 9780252097058, 025209705X

Thomas S. Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual and comm

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Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition 9781782382355

Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cul

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Suffering Narratives of Older Adults: A Phenomenological Approach to Serious Illness, Chronic Pain, Recovery and Maternal Care 1135009651, 9781135009656

In Suffering Narratives of Older Adults, Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey turns to the traditions of phenomenology, humanist

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The Distressed Body: Rethinking Illness, Imprisonment, and Healing 9780226396248

Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can

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The Human Condition: Second Edition 9780226924571, 0226025985

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Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering 9781501741081

Averill enriches our understanding and our appreciation of the peculiar power of Wordsworth's poetic vision.

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Illness as Many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture 9781474402439

Explores the aesthetic, ethical and cultural importance of contemporary representations of illness across different arts

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Illness as Many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture 1474425585, 9781474425582

"Illness narratives have become a cultural phenomenon in the Western world. In what ways can they be seen to have a

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The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View 9780691198378

A distinguished scholar and the well-known author of The Rise of the West and Plagues and Peoples, William McNeill has w

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The Human Condition: An Ecological and Historical View 9780691198378, 0691198373

A distinguished scholar and the well-known author of The Rise of the West and Plagues and Peoples, William McNeill has w

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