Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Humanities; Director, The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine Ph.D., University of Rochester, 1978.
"Doctors may describe diseases and their effects from the outside; only patients can describe them from the inside. Such descriptions, which Anne Hunsaker Hawkins calls 'pathographies, ' take the form of vivid personal accounts, often of journeys into a fearful realm of sickness. Reconstructing Illness is a beautifully written and profound consideration of the range of such pathographies, their organizing myths and metaphors, and the light they cast on what it means to be human in the face of illness."
"Doctors may describe diseases and their effects from the outside; only patients can describe them from the inside. Such descriptions, which Anne Hunsaker Hawkins calls 'pathographies, ' take the form of vivid personal accounts, often of journeys into a fearful realm of sickness. Reconstructing Illness is a beautifully written and profound consideration of the range of such pathographies, their organizing myths and metaphors, and the light they cast on what it means to be human in the face of illness."
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