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3065517Autobiography of a Diseasehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/autobiography-of-a-disease-9781351720991/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3038173/890021b2-a60f-4854-ad4c-ba37fcf947d0.jpg?v=63838479479747000011691169MXNTaylor & FrancisInStock/Ebooks/<p><em>Autobiography of a Disease</em> documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics. The narrative is based primarily on the authors sudden and catastrophic collapse into a coma and long hospitalization thirteen years ago; but it has also been crafted from twelve years of research on the history of microbiology, literary representations of illness and medical treatment, cultural analysis of MRSA in the popular press, and extended autoethnographic work on medicalization.</p><p>An experiment in form, the book blends the genres of storytelling, historiography, ethnography, and memoir. Unlike most medical memoirs, told from the perspective of the human patient, <em>Autobiography of a Disease</em> is told from the perspective of a bacterial cluster. This orientation is intended to represent the distribution of perspectives on illness, disability, and pain across subjective centersfrom patient to monitoring machine, from body to cell, from caregiver to cared-forand thus makes sense of illness only in a social context.</p>...3001440Autobiography of a Disease11691169https://www.gandhi.com.mx/autobiography-of-a-disease-9781351720991/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3038173/890021b2-a60f-4854-ad4c-ba37fcf947d0.jpg?v=638384794797470000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20179781351720991_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9781351720991_<p><em>Autobiography of a Disease</em> documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics. The narrative is based primarily on the authors sudden and catastrophic collapse into a coma and long hospitalization thirteen years ago; but it has also been crafted from twelve years of research on the history of microbiology, literary representations of illness and medical treatment, cultural analysis of MRSA in the popular press, and extended autoethnographic work on medicalization.</p><p>An experiment in form, the book blends the genres of storytelling, historiography, ethnography, and memoir. Unlike most medical memoirs, told from the perspective of the human patient, <em>Autobiography of a Disease</em> is told from the perspective of a bacterial cluster. This orientation is intended to represent the distribution of perspectives on illness, disability, and pain across subjective centersfrom patient to monitoring machine, from body to cell, from caregiver to cared-forand thus makes sense of illness only in a social context.</p>(*_*)9781351720991_<p><em>Autobiography of a Disease</em> documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics. The narrative is based primarily on the authors sudden and catastrophic collapse into a coma and long hospitalization thirteen years ago; but it has also been crafted from twelve years of research on the history of microbiology, literary representations of illness and medical treatment, cultural analysis of MRSA in the popular press, and extended autoethnographic work on medicalization.</p><p>An experiment in form, the book blends the genres of storytelling, historiography, ethnography, and memoir. Unlike most medical memoirs, told from the perspective of the human patient, <em>Autobiography of a Disease</em> is told from the perspective of a bacterial cluster. This orientation is intended to represent the distribution of perspectives on illness, disability, and pain across subjective centersfrom patient to monitoring machine, from body to cell, from caregiver to cared-forand thus makes sense of illness only in a social context.</p>...9781351720991_Taylor and Francis(*_*)9781351720991_Taylor & Francislibro_electonico_91b7600a-d49f-3a61-afc7-5037fad4e3ea_9781351720991;9781351720991_9781351720991Patrick AndersonInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/taylorandfrancis-epub-036a189f-df70-462d-b99f-4642677c8b5c.epub2017-06-09T00:00:00+00:00Taylor & Francis