Sick and tired : an intimate history of fatigue / Emily K. Abel.
Sick and tired : an intimate history of fatigue / Emily K. Abel.
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Publisher
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
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G 2021/1001
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Language
English
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Physical content
196 pages ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Living with fatigue -- Learning from pain and depression -- A history of fatigue -- Rest: "becoming fit for the forthcoming labor" -- Fighting fatigue -- Remembering sickness -- Rewriting the story.
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Publisher
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
[2021]
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Summary
"Blending vivid auto-ethnography with historical and cultural analysis, this book examines three themes common to the experience of chronic fatigue patients. The first is the denigration of subjective knowledge in the medical community. Since there are no tools with which to diagnose fatigue, there can be no medical confirmation, making it difficul...
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Sick and tired : an intimate history of fatigue / Emily K. Abel.
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Studies in social medicine
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Date Copyright
©2021
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G 2021/1001
Record Identifier
74VKazKwLZzX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKazKwLZzX
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ISBN
1469661780
9781469661780
DDC
616.0478
MMS ID
991024398315302626
