Idioms of Distress: Psychosomatic Disorders in Medical and Imaginative Literature

by Lilian R. Furst

Lilian R. Furst is Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her previous books include Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Literature, published by SUNY Press; Just Talk: Narratives of Psychotherapy; and Between Doctors and Patients: The Changing Balance of Power.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791455580
• ISBN13: 9780791455586
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 6.5"