Query Details
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The social construction of illness
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| Author: | Arran Stibbe | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Sociolinguistics
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| Query: |
Autobiographies, I find, take me into other worlds like no other
literature does. There may be inaccurate reconstructions and distortions of events, but they show how people think and reason and experience their lives. Particularly interesting are `pathographies', detailed first person descriptions of how people are effected by serious illness, not just on a medical level but also on personal, emotional and social levels. My own interest is in tracing the metaphors used in pathography, and, through the wealth of information provided by the details of the autobiographies, trying to assess their affect on people's lives. Given what I see as their potential for illuminating the social construction of illness I am surprised not to find lots of literature on pathography. Arthur Frank writes that `There are virtually no academic studies of nonfiction, first person, published illness narrative; the sole exception I know is Hawkins (1984)'. The question is, is Frank right? If anyone has come across either work on illness narratives in popular non-fiction, or has found some particularly interesting non-fiction account of illness then it would be nice to hear from you. I'll send a summary of what I find to everyone. Arran Stibbe (lics@warthog.ru.ac.za) - -------------------------------------------------------- Arran Stibbe TEL: 27 461 318105 (W) Department of Linguistics FAX: 27 461 25049 Rhodes University Grahamstown 6140 South Africa - -------------------------------------------------------- |
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| LL Issue: | 8.188 | |
| Date posted: | 07-Feb-1997 | |
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