Recovering Bodies – Illness, Disability and Life–writing Couser Mairs Paperback

Recovering Bodies Illness Disability and Lifewriting\nby G.thomas Couser\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: G.thomas Couser\nTitle: Recovering Bodies Illness Disability and Lifewriting\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000\nPublisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin\nPublication year: 1997\nISBN-13: 9780299155643\nISBN-10: 0299155641\nRRP: \u00A329.50\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis text focuses on the writing by and about people with illness or disability. Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for individuals to recover their bodies, or those of loved ones, from marginalization and impersonal medical discourse.\n\nThis text focuses on the writing by and about people with illness or disabil.