{"product_id":"difference-and-identity-jonathan-m-metzl-9780801882050","title":"Difference and Identity: A Special Issue of Literature and Medicine","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn an increasingly diverse society, it is essential that medicine be aware of matters of difference. Medical humanities programs promote awareness of the social aspects of medicine, and the Association of American Medical Colleges has recently instituted cultural competencies for clinical interaction for the training of medical students. Yet these efforts to impart understanding of the cross-cultural aspects of medicine are still hindered by a significant limitation: within a medical system whose currency is diagnosis, difference is primarily defined through disease. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis special issue of \u003ci\u003eLiterature and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on difference and identity in the context of disease and disability. The articles collected here explore the complex ways in which notions of disease, disability, and difference are related and in which bodies marked by gender, race, disability, sexuality, and ethnic identities experience disease in specific ways. The essays take a humanities-based approach to the subject and emphasize an awareness and sensitivity to difference through forms of symbolic representation such as metaphor and narrative. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides a heuristic lens through which relationships between individual expressions of identity and communal experiences of difference can be considered. Each article speaks to the process whereby individual stories and strategies shape, and are in turn shaped by, the institutions they seek to transform. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterature and Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e is devoted to exploring interfaces between literary and medical knowledge and understanding. The journal showcases the creative and critical work of renowned physician-writers, leading literary scholars, and medical humanists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jonathan M. Metzl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801882052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801882050\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.24w x 0.56d","brand":"Jonathan M. Metzl","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448953286911,"sku":"9780801882050","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_da589a8c-0562-4c7b-8cea-e54d2f918487.jpg?v=1777261325","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/difference-and-identity-jonathan-m-metzl-9780801882050","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}