Advanced search Subscribe to our newsletter and you'll continuously be informed about our new books, series and journals. You can customize this e-mail newsletter to your particular needs and interests. Newsletters include special discount codes. To subscribe or change existing preferences press the subscribe button	Series and Journals The Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease. KALITZKUS, Vera and Peter L. TWOHIG (Eds.) Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2009, VII, 191 pp. Pb: 978-90-420-2515-8 € 40 / US$ 54 Series: At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 55 Human suffering and illness as well as health and healing are topics of ongoing actuality. In a world of growing complexity and interrelatedness a broader perspective on these topics is needed. The global conference project on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease” is a forum for scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 5th conference held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2006. It combines essays that transgress traditional disciplinary boundaries in the field of health care delivery and medicine. It thus will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care providers who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which health, illness and disease can be understood. Contents Vera KALITZKUS and Peter L. TWOHIG: Introduction Part 1. Perspectives from Literature Harold SCHWEIZER: On Waiting and Hoping in Raymond Carver’s “A Small, Good Thing” Jennifer COOKE: Writing Plague: Transforming Narrative, Witnessing and History Sherah WELLS: Strand by Strand: Untying the Knots of Mental and Physical Illness in the Correspondence and Diaries of Antonia White and Emily Holmes Coleman Part 2. Politics, Community and Biomedicine Stephan VAN ERP: Diagnosing Hidden Religion in Medicine: Health, Illness and the Politics of Hope Kate COLEMAN: Personal and Communal Reactions to Cancer: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Beliefs held by Charedi Jewish Breast Cancer Patients Janina KEHR: The Politics and Poetics of Migrant Tuberculosis: Modelling a “Social Disease” in French Public Health Monica BROWN: Woman as Mysterious Machine: Metaphor, Rhetoric and Female Sexual Dysfunction Part 3. The Multiple Subjectivities of Addiction Andy RUDDOCK: It’s the Stories You Tell: Binge Drinking, Violence and Celebrity Maria CAIATA ZUFFEREY: “I use drugs, but I am not a drug addict”: How Heroin and Cocaine Users Make Sense of Their Practice as a Healthy Behaviour Kimmo SAARISTO: Abnormal Normality: Addiction, Identity and the Problem of Normal	Tijnmuiden 7 1046 AK Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31-20-611 48 21 F: +31-20-447 29 79 248 East 44th Street - 2nd floor New York, NY 10017 USA T: 1-800-225-3998 F: 1-800-853-3881 Toll-free in the USA info@rodopi.nl