内容简介：
How is illness represented in today’s cultural texts?
In Ghostbodies, Maia Dolphin-Krute argues that the
illusive sick body is often made invisible – a ghost
– because it does not always fit society’s definition
of disability. In these pages, she reflectively
engages in a philosophical discussion of the lived
experience of illness alongside an examination of
how language and cultural constructions influence
and represent this experience in a variety of forms.
The book provides a linguistic mirror through
which the reader may see his or her own specific
invalidity reflected, enabling an examination of
what it is like to live within a ghostbody. In the end,
Dolphin-Krute asks – if illness is not what it seems,
what then is health?
作者简介：
Maia Dolphin-Krute is an independent scholar