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  1. (1 other version)Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors.Edward W. Said - 1989 - Critical Inquiry 15 (2):205-225.
    At this point I should say something about one of the frequent criticisms addressed to me, and to which I have always wanted to respond, that in the process of characterizing the production of Europe’s inferior Others, my work is only negative polemic which does not advance a new epistemological approach or method, and expresses only desperation at the possibility of ever dealing seriously with other cultures. These criticisms are related to the matters I’ve been discussing so far, and while (...)
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  • The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception.Michel Foucault - 1973 - Vintage Books.
    In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance.
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  • The wounded storyteller: body, illness, and ethics.Arthur W. Frank - 1995 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
    In At the Will of the Body , Arthur Frank told the story of his own illnesses, heart attack and cancer. That book ended by describing the existence of a "remission society," whose members all live with some form of illness or disability. The Wounded Storyteller is their collective portrait. Ill people are more than victims of disease or patients of medicine they are wounded storytellers. People tell stories to make sense of their suffering when they turn their diseases into (...)
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  • Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society and Disease.Robert A. Aronowitz - 1998 - Cambridge University Press.
    This 1998 book contains historical essays about how diseases change their meaning.
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  • Orientalism.Edward Said - 1978 - Vintage.
    A provocative critique of Western attitudes about the Orient, this history examines the ways in which the West has discovered, invented, and sought to control the East from the 1700s to the present.
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  • How we die: reflections on life's final chapter.Sherwin B. Nuland - 1994 - New York: Published by Random House Large Print in association with Alfred A. Knopf.
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