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In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America

✍ Scribed by Edwards, Laurie

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Year
2013;2014
Tongue
English
Weight
168 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0802778275

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✦ Synopsis

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Dedication; Introduction; Chapter 1 From Plato to Polio Chronic Disease in Historical Context; Chapter 2 An Awakening Medicine and Illness in PostΓ’#x80;#x93;World War Two America; Chapter 3 Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness; Chapter 4 The WomenΓ’#x80;#x99;s Health Movement and Patient Empowerment; Chapter 5 Culture, Consumerism, and Character Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s; Chapter 6 A Slight Hysterical Tendency Revisiting Γ’#x80;#x9C;The Girl Who Cried PainΓ’#x80;#x9D;; Chapter 7 Into the Fray Patients in the Digital Age.

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Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote, "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick ... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place." Now more than 133 million Americans live