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Medical humanities, sociology and the suffering self : surviving health / Wendy Lowe.

By: Lowe, Wendy (Lecturerer in medical sociology) [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Routledge advances in medical humanities.Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780429316937; 0429316933; 9781000293005; 1000293009; 9781000293067; 1000293068; 9781000293036; 1000293033.Subject(s): Medicine and the humanities | SufferingDDC classification: 610 Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement
Contents:
Stitching suffering together -- Patterns of suffering -- Suffering as foundational to health professional education -- Sorting the wood from the trees -- The suffering self and burning woman -- Pilgrimages -- how can medical humanities think differently about suffering? -- Diving Down Deep.
Summary: "Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social justice, Lowe argues that medical humanities can help to go beyond the traditional biographical and epistemic breaks to see into the nature and properties of suffering and what is at stake"-- Provided by publisher.
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Stitching suffering together -- Patterns of suffering -- Suffering as foundational to health professional education -- Sorting the wood from the trees -- The suffering self and burning woman -- Pilgrimages -- how can medical humanities think differently about suffering? -- Diving Down Deep.

"Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social justice, Lowe argues that medical humanities can help to go beyond the traditional biographical and epistemic breaks to see into the nature and properties of suffering and what is at stake"-- Provided by publisher.

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