The Grey Zone of Health and Illness
：Culture, Disease, and Well-Being
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Publication subTitle ：Culture, Disease, and Well-Being
Publication series ：1
Publisher： Intellect Books
Publication year： 2010
E-ISBN: 9781841503585
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781841503646
Subject： R-02 Philosophy of Medicine
Keyword： 医药、卫生,电影、电视艺术
Language： ENG
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Description
With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, the book identifies the Grey Zone as the persistence and function of ambiguity in everyday life that requires a complete rethinking of health and sickness, self-governance and negligence. A heady, cutting-edge intervention in a critical area of society, The Grey Zone of Health and Illness will have wide ramifications in the academy and beyond.
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