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• Title:Illness in the academy : a collection of pathographies by academics / edited by Kimberly R. Myers.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Myers, Kimberly R. (Kimberly Rena), 1962-
  
• Published/Created:West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA100 .I38 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Health--Miscellanea.
  Healing--Literary collections.
  
• Medical Subjects: Attitude to Health
  Attitude to Death
  Disease--psychology
  Medicine in Literature
  Patients--psychology
  
• Genre/Form: Personal narratives.
  
• Description:xv, 467 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781557534422 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Brancardier / Seamus Heaney
  Pt. I. Illness and identity : dynamics of self and family
  Manzanita / Sharon D. King
  Some questions to consider / Patricia O'Hara
  book of ruth : a pelvic space / Ellin Ronee Pollachek
  Breast disease and screening : my mother's story, my story / Moya Lynn Alfonso
  Unintended research : a sociologist's experience with illness and death / Michael Rowe
  Luck or miracle : my battle with cancer / Michael J. Meyer
  Over and under and back from whence you came / Michael Verde
  Reflections of a Chaplain and a daughter / Tami L. Higdon
  Stay of execution / Susanna Black
  Pt. II. Concealing illness, performing health
  Coming out with my academic depression / Barbara J. Jago
  Invisible disorder : passing as an academic / Hilary Clark
  manic-depressive professor / Rebecca Hogan
  first girl to land on the moon / Barbara J. Campbell
  certain remoteness : telling vaginismus / Fulvia Dunham
  Breast art / Lisa Katz
  Pt. III. Agency and advocacy
  When pain is the other dancer : living with migraine / Althea E. Rhodes
  Pain in the neck / Susannah B. Mintz
  My father's illness : a case study in ageism / Henry Abramovitch
  prolapse / Rae Luckie
  On falling up / Evelyn Scott
  Double trouble / Richard A. Ingram
  Climbing mountains / Michael Edmond Donnelly
  calculus of advocacy : a patient, positionality, and chronic illness / Jane E. Schultz
  White coat syndrome / Rebecca A. Pope
  AIDS in academe : a story of silence, struggle and success / Chris Bell
  Disabled identity in academia / Christopher R. Smit
  Losing my dirty mind / Andrea T. Wagner
  Making the impossible possible : imagining alternative experiences of pain / Elena Levy-Navarro
  Of blood and guts / Kimberly R. Myers
  Scheherazade syndrome : illness and storytelling / Kristin Lindgren
  treatment / Roxana Robinson
  Panic / Ellen Samuels
  Pt. IV. Medicine at the margins
  "Speak, mild fran" : panic disorder and my perverse devotion to a life of public speaking / Bonnie Blackwell
  Dsm-Iv 300.30 / Mikita Brottman
  Mirror image / Emma Burns
  brief portrait of an autistic as a young man / Ruth Elizabeth Burks
  Her reckoning : a young interdisciplinary academic dissects the exact nature of her disease / Wendy Marie Thompson
  interstices of illness : the elasticity of diagnostic time / Tracy Curtis
  More than a case / Ting Man Tsao
  Medical magic and medicinal cure : manipulating meanings of disease / Laurence Marshall Carucci
  Seeing Mt. Fuji / Maggie Griffin Taylor
  Being ill/being well : reflections on an illness / Susan Dick
  Bone scan/on the lake / Ellen Goldsmith
  Shaman / Lynda Hall
  32 y/o single female with stage IV breast cancer / Laurie Rosenblatt and Juanita Jones
  Epilogue : seasons / Abraham Verghese.