Medical humanities, sociology and the suffering self : surviving health /

Lowe, Wendy (Lecturerer in medical sociology),

Medical humanities, sociology and the suffering self : surviving health / Wendy Lowe. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. - volumes cm. - Routledge advances in medical humanities .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Following criticisms of the traditionally polarized view of understanding suffering through either medicine or social justice, Lowe argues that medical humanities can help to go beyond the traditional biographical and epistemic breaks to see into the nature and properties of suffering and what is at stake"--

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Medicine and the humanities.
Suffering.

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