Social studies of health, illness and disease : perspectives from the social sciences and humanities

Vera KALITZKUS and Peter L. TWOHIG: Introduction Body, Self and Illness Amy RUTSTEIN-RILEY: Shifting Views of Self: Impact of Chronic Illness Diagnosis on Young Emerging Adult Women Marlene BENJAMIN: Cancer and the Idea of the Self: Philosophy, Memoir and Medical Trauma Social and Cultural Context(s) Joe GRIXTI: Desirability and Its Discontents: Young People's Responses to Media Images of Health, Beauty and Physical Perfection Isabelle MEURET: Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures Katarina BERNHARDSSON: Devils, Serpents, Zebras: Metaphors of Illness in Contemporary Swedish Literature on Eating Disorders The Ideal Body Charlotte BAKER: Writing Over the Illness: The Symbolic Representation of Albinism Elisabeth GEDGE: Genetics, Disability and Symbolic Harm Donovan ROCHER: Alcoholism: 'Correction' and the Changing Notions of 'Recovery' Representing Pain: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Zoe NORRIDGE: Perceptions of Pain in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature: Personal Public Narratives in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins Victoria M. GRACE and Sara MACBRIDE-STEWART: Metaphors of Injury: Women Make Sense of Pelvic Pain Stella HOWDEN: Barriers to Talking About Chronic Pain: Insiders' Views on Illness, Self and Responsibility Perspectives on Donation Susan ROGERS: Standardising Semen: Online Personalities and the Negotiation of Health Peter J. SCHULZ: Media Treatment of Organ Donation: A Case Study in Switzerland