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The aesthetics of illness: narrative, horror and the sublime
- Source :
- Sociology of Health & Illness. Nov, 1999, Vol. 21 Issue 6, p778, 18 p.
- Publication Year :
- 1999
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Abstract
- Issues regarding first-person accounts of terminal illness as giving the authors a sense of freedom and understanding of their suffering are discussed. The horrors integral to such accounts are basic to the author's symbolisation of an illness-world and use myth to understand suffering.
- Subjects :
- Terminally ill persons -- Biography
Health
Sociology and social work
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Details
- ISSN :
- 01419889
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Sociology of Health & Illness
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.59545866