In Bodies & Barriers: Dramas of Dis-Ease, editor Angela Belli guides the reader through
seven plays that explore or invoke medical issues. She shares a formidable knowledge of …

Disease, which today is our word for serious illness or sickness, literally means,“discomfort,”
that is,“without ease”(1). This original meaning implies the sense or feeling of being ill (2) …

Kent State University Press. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Bodies and
Barriers: Dramas of Dis-ease, Angela Belli," Bodies and Barriers" offers a collection of …

The articles, essays, and creative work in this general issue all, fortuitously, deal with
aspects of the same subject: cultural taboos surrounding illness and the ways in which art …

Writing Center faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina teach humanities courses
in which we include literary texts that are not ostensibly" about health care" to introduce to …

Following our initial call for clinical and academic reviews of 'Illness as many Narratives,'Drs
Claire Hooker and Scott Fitzpatrick offer their perspectives as researchers in the broader …

These books, however different in style and substance, both offer a message of permission
in reading. Both speak to what I believe health humanities already practices, which seems …

Stella Bolacki's Illness as Many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture is a “critical
interloping”(13) into the field of medical humanities, which developed in the last few …

119 Book Reviews of medicine's foundational role in rendering both institutions unfriendly to
the non-normative, inhospitable to the disabled. Davis's book is important to the medical …

Healing: Women Write Their Bodies. number 10 in the literature and medicine Series. Kent,
Ohio: Kent State university Press, 2007. 329 pp. Paperback. $37.95. this is a remarkable …