Reading the Psychosomatic in Medical and Popular Culture Something. Nothing. Everything / [electronic resource] :

• 作者： Farkas, Carol-Ann, author.
• 出版： London : Taylor and Francis
• 版本：First edition.
• 叢書名： Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities
• 主題： MEDICAL--General. , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9781315515694 (electronic bk.): USD165.00 、 1315515695
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on editor; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the psychosomatic as nothing, something, and everything; 1 Patients with multiple somatic symptoms and their physicians: at the mercy of a medical system; 2 Narrative medicine and fibromyalgia: between facts and fictions, ""factions"" to be honored; 3 Medically unexplained symptoms and the ethics of diagnosis: what does it mean when the doctor says there's nothing wrong?; 4 Feeding your feelings: emotional eating in mid-twentieth-century America. 5 Impossible illnesses: decolonizing psychosomatic medicine6 Narrative coherence and medical explanations of psychosomatic pain; 7 Medicalstudentitis as a rite of passage in popular literature; 8 Women with long-term exhaustion in fictional literature: a comparative approach; 9 The brute within: psychosomatic illness and narrative in The Sopranos; 10 Poor Things: parodying diagnosis in popular culture; Index.
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• 摘要註: "Pain. Chronic digestive symptoms. Poor sleep. Neuropathy. Sensory disturbances. Fatigue. Panic. Constant illness and discomfort. Frequent difficulty coping with work, school, relationships. Despite the common experience of being told that it's all in their heads, that they're just making themselves sick, individuals with these symptoms are experiencing a very real, sometimes debilitating, illness phenomenon. But what is it? Physical or mental illness? Political or social identity? Cultural, narrative, or discursive construction? When something goes awry at the intersection of mind and body - the psychosomatic - what is happening? Widely recognized, yet difficult to classify, diagnose, treat, and explain, psychosomatic disorders are heavily stigmatized, and the associated syndromes have become the site of controversy and antipathy in the provider-patient relationship. In popular culture, terms such as medically unexplained symptoms, hysteria, neurasthenia, hypochondria, functional illness, and malingering are misunderstood, unknown, or rejected outright. Meanwhile, perspectives from cultural and textual studies focus on the psychosomatic as a metaphor in art, literature, and popular media, where disruptions of the body and mind are regularly made to stand in for individual alienation and cultural malaise. Bringing together multiple perspectives, this challenging volume tackles causes, and innovative, humanistic solutions, to conflicts in the provider-patient relationship; uses the psychosomatic as a lens for theorizing the self in culture; and examines the metaphorical potential of the psychosomatic in fictional narrative. Providing a unique assemblage of interdisciplinary, international approaches to understanding the problem of the psychosomatic in both expert and lay discourses, this pioneering edited collection is aimed at students and researchers of health, popular culture, and the health care humanities."--Provided by publisher.
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