The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer,...
The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer,...
The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care / Anne Boyer.
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
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G 2020/0454
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
308 pages ; 20 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prologue -- The incubants -- Birth of the pavilion -- The sick bed -- How the oracle held -- The hoax -- In the temple of Giulietta Masina's tears -- Wasted life -- Deathwatch -- Epilogue / and what it was that saved me.
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2019.
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Summary
"A fresh, fierce, and timely meditation on data, pain, time, and the limited capacity of literature to comprehend life and death in a sensate and vulnerable body." -- Provided by publisher.
When Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, the illness was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. Here she explores the experience of illness as mediated by digital screens, weaving in ancient Roman dream diarists, cancer hoaxers and fetishists, cancer...
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The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care / Anne Boyer.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-306).
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©2019
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G 2020/0454
Record Identifier
74VKaZaQdvwy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZaQdvwy
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ISBN
0374279349 hardcover
9780374279349 hardcover
DDC
616.994490092 B
MMS ID
991024290908602626
