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Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) by G. Thomas Couser; Nancy Mairs is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) about?
This is a provocative look at writing by and about people with illness or disability—in particular HIV/AIDS, breast cancer, deafness, and paralysis—who challenge the stigmas attached to their conditions by telling their lives in their own ways and on their own terms. Discussing memoirs, diaries, collaborative narratives, photo documentaries, essays, and other forms of life writing, G. Thomas Couser shows that these books are not primarily records of medical conditions; they are a means for indiv
Who reads Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- G. Thomas Couser; Nancy Mairs
- Publisher
- Madison: University of Wisconsin Press
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780299155605
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Psychology, Literary Criticism, Medical
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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