Reviews and Notes: Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography

  1. Rita Charon
  1. College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.

    Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography

    Anne Hunsaker Hawkins. 217 pages. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press; 1993. $14.95.

    Contemporary pathographies—stories of illnesses written by patients—are the successors, suggests Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, to accounts of religious conversion and cautionary parables. Rather than throwaway rantings of doctor bashers, these narratives of disease and treatment illuminate, like their earlier counterparts, fears of death and hopes for redemption.

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    1. Ann Intern Med May 15, 1994 vol. 120 no. 10 895
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