The transfigured body and the ethical turn in australian illness memoir

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 163-172

  Nettelbeck, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Illness memoir; Polyphonic narratives; Social history

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BOOK; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; LITERATURE; MEDICAL ETHICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PUBLISHING; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BOOKS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NARRATION; PUBLISHING;

EID: 48449103564     PISSN: 10413545     EISSN: 15733645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-008-9061-5     Document Type: Article

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