{"product_id":"stories-of-illness-and-healing-women-write-their-bodies-paperback","title":"Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDasGupta\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMarsha Hurst\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA collection of women's illness narratives\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStories of Illness and Healing\u003c\/em\u003e is the first collection to place the voices of women experiencing illness alongside analytical writing from prominent scholars in the field of narrative medicine. The collection includes a variety of women's illness narratives--poetry, essays, short fiction, short drama, analyses, and transcribed oral testimonies--as well as traditional analytic essays about themes and issues raised by the narratives. \u003cem\u003eStories of Illness and Healing\u003c\/em\u003e bridges the artificial divide between women's lives and scholarship in gender, health, and medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors of these narratives are diverse in age, ethnicity, family situation, sexual orientation, and economic status. They are doctors, patients, spouses, mothers, daughters, activists, writers, educators, and performers. The narratives serve to acknowledge that women's illness experiences are more than their diseases, that they encompass their entire lives. The pages of this book echo with personal accounts of illness, diagnosis, and treatment. They reflect the social constructions of women's bodies, their experiences of sexuality and reproduction, and their roles as professional and family caregivers. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, \u003cem\u003eStories of Illness and Healing\u003c\/em\u003e draws the connection between women's suffering and advocacy for women's lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSayantani DasGupta, \u003c\/strong\u003e MD, MPH, is a faculty member in the Division of General Pediatrics and the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She teaches courses on illness narratives and narrative genetics at Sarah Lawrence College and is a prose faculty member in an intensive summer seminar on \"Writing the Medical Experience.\" She is the coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Demon Slayers and Other Stories: Bengali Folktales\u003c\/em\u003e and author of a memoir of her time at Johns Hopkins Medical School, \u003cem\u003eHer Own Medicine: A Woman's Journey from Student to Doctor.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarsha Hurst, \u003c\/strong\u003e PhD, is director of the Health Advocacy master's program at Sarah Lawrence College, where she teaches courses on the history of health care and women's health. She writes and speaks on ethics and advocacy in health care, women's health, and advocacy education. She works with patient advocacy organizations, with individual, professional, and lay advocates, with policy advocates, and with community-based advocacy programs. She is a cosponsor at Sarah Lawrence of \"Writing the Medical Experience\" and has been involved in research and program development around the importance of narrative in advocacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9.22 x 6.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Independent Publisher Book Awards (2008)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52241861214482,"sku":"9780873389167","price":37.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0941\/2211\/5346\/files\/Xm5wDCGSDF9780873389167.webp?v=1777908117","url":"https:\/\/ckbookstore.net\/products\/stories-of-illness-and-healing-women-write-their-bodies-paperback","provider":"CK BOOKSTORE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}