Illness and Irony: On the Ambiguity of Suffering in Culture

Theories of illness and therapy since Freud have included the possibility that sufferers are complicit in their conditions. The studies in this volume explore the ways in which illness and therapy may be characterized as sites at which ironies of the human condition are produced, encountered, acknowledged - or discounted in favor of more literal readings. They ask what these sites can teach us about questions of human agency and about the broader...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571816747
• ISBN13: 9781571816740
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"