Bodies in a Broken World: Women Novelists of Color and the Politics of Medicine (Studies in Social Medicine) Reviews

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Release: 2003-09-22
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0807854808
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.S. women of color to propose a rethinking of modern medical practice, arguing that personal health and social justice are inextricably linked. Drawing on feminist ethics to explore the work of eleven novelists, Stanford challenges medicine to position itself more deeply within the communities it serves, especially the poor and marginalized. However, she also argues that medicine must recognize its limits and join forces with the nonmedical community in the struggle for social justice. In literary representations of physical and emotional states of illness and health, Stanford identifies issues related to public health, medical ethics, institutionalized racism, women's health, domestic abuse, and social justice that are important to discussions about how to improve health and health care. She argues that in either direct or indirect ways, the eleven novelists considered push us to see health not only as Download Bodies in a Broken World for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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