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Human suffering and illness as well as health and healing are topics of ongoing actuality. In a world of growing complexity and interrelatedness a broader perspective on these topics is needed. The global conference project on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease" is a forum for scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 5th conference held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2006. It combines essays that transgress traditional disciplinary boundaries in the field of health care deli

The studies of the human being in health and illness and how he can be cared for is concerned with more than the biological aspects and thus calls for a broader perspective. Social sciences and medical humanities give insight into the context and conditions of being ill, caring for the ill, and understanding disease in a respective socio-cultural frame. This book brings together scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 4th global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," h

The study of health care brings one into contact with many disciplines and perspectives, including those of the provider and the patient. There are also multiple academic lenses through which one can view health, illness and disease. This book brings together scholars from around the world who are interested in developing new conversations intended to situate health in broader social and cultural contexts. This book is the outcome of the second global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," held at St Hilda's College, Oxford, in July 2003. The selected papers pursue a range of topics and incorporate perspectives from the humanities, social sciences and clinical sciences. This volume will be of interest to researchers and health care practitioners who wish to gain insight into other ways of understanding health, illness and disease

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Vera Kalitzkus and Peter L. Twohig -- Shifting Views of Self: Impact of Chronic Illness Diagnosis on Young Emerging Adult Women /Amy Rutstein-Riley -- Cancer and the Idea of the Self: Philosophy, Memoir, and Medical Trauma /Marlene Benjamin -- Desirability and Its Discontents: Young People's Responses to Media Images of Health, Beauty and Physical Perfection /Joe Grixti -- Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures /Isabelle Meuret -- Devils, Serpents, Zebras: Metaphors of Illness in Contemporary Swedish Literature on Eating Disorders /Katarina Bernhardsson -- Writing Over the Illness: The Symbolic Representation of Albinism /Charlotte Baker -- Genetics, Disability and Symbolic Harm /Elisabeth Gedge -- Alcoholism: 'Correction' and the Changing Notions of 'Recovery' /Donavan Rocher -- Perceptions of Pain in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature: Personal Public Narratives in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins /Zoë Norridge -- Metaphors of Injury: Women Make Sense of Pelvic Pain /Victoria M. Grace and Sara MacBride-Stewart -- Barriers to Talking About Chronic Pain: Insiders' Views on Illness, Self and Responsibility /Stella Howden -- Standardising Semen: Online Personalities and the Negotiation of Health /Susan Rogers -- Media Treatment of Organ Donation: A Case Study in Switzerland /Peter J. Schulz.