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" Ghostbodies : "
Maia Dolphin-Krute.
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BL
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855743
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Dolphin-Krute, Maia
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Ghostbodies : : towards a new theory of invalidism /\ Maia Dolphin-Krute.
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Bristol, UK :: Intellect,, 2017.
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, ©2017
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x, 134 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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1783207388
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: 1783207809
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: 9781783207381
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: 9781783207800
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9781783207831
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9781783207930
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| Notes
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"This is a peer-reviewed publication"--Titlepage verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134).
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Ghosts -- Haunting -- Haunted -- Exorcism -- Grief -- Invalid -- Historical fiction -- Conclusion.
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How is illness represented in today's cultural texts? In 'Ghostbodies', Maia Dolphin-Krute argues that the illusive sick body is often made invisible--a ghost--because it does not always fit society's definition of disability. In these pages, she reflectively engages in a philosophical discussion of the lived experience of illness alongside an examination of how language and cultural constructions influence and represent this experience in a variety of forms. The book provides a linguistic mirror through which the reader may see his or her own specific invalidity reflected, enabling an examination of what it is like to live within a ghostbody. In the end, Dolphin-Krute asks--if illness is not what it seems, what then is health?
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Diseases-- Social aspects.
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Sick in literature.
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Sick in motion pictures.
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Sick-- Attitudes.
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Sick-- Philosophy.
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Diseases-- Social aspects.
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Sick in literature.
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Sick in motion pictures.
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Sick-- Attitudes.
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Medicine in the Arts.
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Philosophy, Medical.
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Sick Role.
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| Dewey Classification
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190
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B790-5739
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R726.5.D657 2017
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