Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2005
Modern medicine traditionally separates disease -- an objectively verified disorder -- from illness -- a patient's subjective experience. Postmodern medicine, Morris says, can make no such clean distinction; instead, it demands a biocultural model, situating illness at the crossroads of biology and culture. Maladies such as chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder signal our awareness that there are biocultural ways of being sick.
The biocultural vision of illness not only blurs old boundaries but also offers a new and infinitely promising arena for investigating both biology and culture. In many ways Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age leads us to understand our experience of the world differently.
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