The Dread Disease

Author : James T. PATTERSON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674041933
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dread Disease written by James T. PATTERSON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the cultural history of cancer and examines society's reaction to the disease through a century of American life.

Author : Stephen Parks Strickland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics, Science, and Dread Disease written by Stephen Parks Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth J. Doka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781560322481
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AIDS, Fear, and Society written by Kenneth J. Doka and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : S. P. Strickland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics, Science, and Dread Disease written by S. P. Strickland and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Alcabes
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586488090
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dread written by Philip Alcabes and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcabes persuasively argues that people's anxieties about epidemics are created not so much by the germ or microbe in question--or the actual risks of contagion--but by the unknown, the undesirable, and the misunderstood. b&w illustration insert.

Author : Gretchen Krueger
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 080188831X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hope and Suffering written by Gretchen Krueger and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging study will be of interest to historians, medical practitioners and researchers, and people whose lives have been altered by cancer.

Author : Bob Owen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger's Recovery from AIDS written by Bob Owen and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tayyaba M. Rehman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genes, germs and the Big C written by Tayyaba M. Rehman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathleen Ferris
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184533
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Joyce and the Burden of Disease written by Kathleen Ferris and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce's near blindness, his peculiar gait, and his death from perforated ulcers are commonplace knowledge to most of his readers. But until now, most Joyce scholars have not recognized that these symptoms point to a diagnosis of syphilis. Kathleen Ferris traces Joyce's medical history as described in his correspondence, in the diaries of his brother Stanislaus, and in the memoirs of his acquaintances, to show that many of his symptoms match those of tabes dorsalis, a form of neurosyphilis which, untreated, eventually leads to paralysis. Combining literary analysis and medical detection, Ferris builds a convincing case that this dread disease is the subject of much of Joyce's autobiographical writing. Many of this characters, most notably Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, exhibit the same symptoms as their creator: stiffness of gait, digestive problems, hallucinations, and impaired vision. Ferris also demonstrates that the themes of sin, guilt, and retribution so prevalent in Joyce's works are almost certainly a consequence of his having contracted venereal disease as a young man while frequenting the brothels of Dublin and Paris. By tracing the images, puns, and metaphors in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and by demonstrating their relationship to Joyce's experiences, Ferris shows the extent to which, for Joyce, art did indeed mirror life.

Author : Marc Shell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043545
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polio and Its Aftermath written by Marc Shell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Shell, himself a victim of polio, offers an inspired analysis of the disease. Part memoir, part cultural criticism and history, part meditation on the meaning of disease, Shell's work combines the understanding of a medical researcher with the sensitivity of a literary critic. He deftly draws a detailed yet broad picture of the lived experience of a crippling disease as it makes it way into every facet of human existence.