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• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• File Size : 51,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 May 2019

Sander L. Gilman, whose pioneering work on the history of stereotypes has become a model for scholars in many fields, here examines the images that society creates of disease and

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• File Size : 51,5 Mb
• Release Date : 06 December 2012

How do individuals conceive illness and symptoms? Do their conceptions conflict with the physician's views of their illness, and what happens if they do? This book thoroughly explores the field

• Publisher : Reaktion Books
• File Size : 34,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 June 1995

This timely study demonstrates how images of beauty and ugliness have constructed a visual history that records the artificial boundaries dividing "healthy" bodies from those that are "ill". "Gilman tells

• Publisher : Springer Nature
• File Size : 41,5 Mb
• Release Date : 18 May 2022

This edited book analyses how artists, authors, and cultural practitioners have responded to and represented episodes of epidemics/pandemics through history. Covering a broad range of notable epidemics/pandemics (black

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 24,6 Mb
• Release Date : 26 April 2010

This volume, the first scholarly book on autism and the humanities, brings scholars from several different disciplines together with adults on the autism spectrum to investigate the diverse ways that

• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• File Size : 25,5 Mb
• Release Date : 08 March 2010

This book examines the ways that various syndromes, disorders and diseases appear in modern literature and film. What is especially interesting is that rather than be portrayed as an insurmountable

• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 44,6 Mb
• Release Date : 10 January 2014

Whether in movies, cartoons, commercials, or even fast food marketing, psychology and mental illness remain pervasive in popular culture. In this collection of new essays, scholars from a range of

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 28,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 2013

This book constitutes thoroughly refereed revised selected papers from the BPM 2012 Joint Workshop on Process-Oriented Information Systems and Knowledge Representation in Health Care, ProHealth 2012/KR4HC 2012, held in Tallinn, Estonia,

• Publisher : GRIN Verlag
• File Size : 36,7 Mb
• Release Date : 29 August 2023

Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen (Anglophone Studies), course: As words fail- Linguistic perspectives on Alzheimer's discourse,

• Publisher : National Academies Press
• File Size : 54,5 Mb
• Release Date : 03 September 2016

Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly