Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness by Lisa Diedrich

Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness

Lisa Diedrich

288 pages 2007

2 editions

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Creative expression inspired by disease has been criticized as a celebration of victimhood, unmediated personal experience, or just simply bad art. Despite debate, however, memoirs written about illness—particularly AIDS or cancer—have proliferate...

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