{"product_id":"autobiography-of-a-disease-9781138744509","title":"Autobiography of a Disease","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAutobiography of a Disease\u003c\/em\u003e documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics. The narrative is based primarily on the author's sudden and catastrophic collapse into a coma and long hospitalization thirteen years ago; but it has also been crafted from twelve years of research on the history of microbiology, literary representations of illness and medical treatment, cultural analysis of MRSA in the popular press, and extended autoethnographic work on medicalization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn experiment in form, the book blends the genres of storytelling, historiography, ethnography, and memoir. Unlike most medical memoirs, told from the perspective of the human patient, \u003ci\u003eAutobiography of a Disease\u003c\/i\u003e is told from the perspective of a bacterial cluster. This orientation is intended to represent the distribution of perspectives on illness, disability, and pain across subjective centersfrom patient to monit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePatrick Anderson’s\u003c\/em\u003e Autobiography of a Disease \u003cem\u003eoffers a poetic and indispensible contribution to the growing body of literature that traces illness from an autethnographic perspective. It will reward a broad spectrum of lay, academic, and medical professional readers with its detailed account of the broad web of relationships impacted by one person’s illness. Anderson depicts each of these relationships with exemplary ethical care—including his relationship with the virus itself, personified in a captivating and moving way that reveals the flaws in our health care system and the dedicated people who struggle within and against that system as they fight for their lives and the lives of others.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCraig Gingrich-Philbrook, Professor of Communication Studies, Southern Illinois University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI’ve been waiting for this book for a long time, anticipating Patrick Anderson’s always acute, insightful, nuanced, approach to understanding the performances and representations of our lives. \u003c\/em\u003eAutobiography of a Disease\u003cem\u003e exceeds all my expectations, as it experiments with form, multiplies narrative voices, and undoes the primacy of disciplinary approaches to knowledge and experience. Anderson deploys any and all strategies to evoke the uncanny journey to the precipice of mortality and back to another kind of life. A moving, stunning, necessary book.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJill Dolan, Dean of the College, Annan Professor of English, Professor of Theatre, Princeton University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is a captivating intervention into medical and illness narratives. It realizes the power of disease and care with equal parts precision and pleasure. A must-read for anyone interested in how we live in, with, and by our bodies. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDella Pollock, Professor of Communication Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePatrick Anderson’s\u003c\/em\u003e Autobiography of a Disease \u003cem\u003eoffers a rare and much-needed view of illness that binds the political economy of American medicine to the personal and interpersonal work of healing. With precision and poignancy Anderson offers a harrowing narrative of disease as a communal event linking human and nonhuman agents, moments of peril, and moments of grace. It is an unflinching, creative, and utterly compelling account. Everyone who has been -- or will be -- a patient or a caregiver should read this book\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudith Hamera, Professor, Program in Dance, Princeton University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForeword \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrelude\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart V \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart VI \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCoda \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfterword \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577845256535,"sku":"9781138744509","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138744509.jpg?v=1746096899","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/autobiography-of-a-disease-9781138744509","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}