The biocultural vision of illness not only blurs old boundaries but also offers a new and infinitely promising arena for investigating both biology and culture.
Maladies such as chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder signal our awareness that there are biocultural ways of being sick. Postmodern medicine, Morris says, can make no such clean distinction instead, it demands a biocultural model, situating illness at the crossroads of biology and culture. Modern medicine traditionally separates disease-an objectively verified disorder-from illness-a patient's subjective experience. Even as he decries the overuse and misuse of the term "postmodern," Morris shows how brightly ideas of illness, health, and postmodernism illuminate one another in late-twentieth-century culture. Morris tells the fascinating story, or stories, of what goes into making the postmodern experience of illness different, perhaps unique. Illness has changed in the postmodern era-roughly the period since World War II-as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life.
We become ill in ways our parents and grandparents did not, with diseases unheard of and treatments undreamed of by them.
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