Difference and Identity: A Special Issue of Literature and Medicine

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Release: 2005-06-10
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0801882052
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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In an increasingly diverse society, it is essential that medicine be aware of matters of difference. Medical humanities programs promote awareness of the social aspects of medicine, and the Association of American Medical Colleges has recently instituted cultural competencies for clinical interaction for the training of medical students. Yet these efforts to impart understanding of the cross-cultural aspects of medicine are still hindered by a significant limitation: within a medical system whose currency is diagnosis, difference is primarily defined through disease. This special issue of Literature and Medicine focuses on difference and identity in the context of disease and disability. The articles collected here explore the complex ways in which notions of disease, disability, and difference are related and in which bodies marked by gender, race, disability, sexuality, and ethnic identities experience disease in specific ways. The essays take a humanities-based approach to the subj Download Difference and Identity for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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