Mechanisms of Disease: African-American Women Writers, Social Pathologies, and the Limits of Medicine

Using perspectives from feminist medical ethics and critiques of medicine, explores some of the questions these writers raise and how 3 works in particular resist and challenge medicine into rethinking its role in the healing enterprise.

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Veröffentlicht in:	NWSA journal 1994-04, Vol.6 (1), p.28-47
1. Verfasser:	Stanford, Ann Folwell
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African American culture Black American people Communities Diseases Females Feminist ethics Fiction Healing Medical cures Medical ethics Medicine Metaphors Oppression Racism Sociocultural aspects Sociocultural Factors Symptoms Women Writings
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Zusammenfassung:	Using perspectives from feminist medical ethics and critiques of medicine, explores some of the questions these writers raise and how 3 works in particular resist and challenge medicine into rethinking its role in the healing enterprise.
ISSN:	1040-0656 1527-1889