TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blum,Alan
TI  - The Grey Zone of health and illness 
T2  - Culture, disease, and well-being
SN  - 9781841503585
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Bristol, UK, Chicago
PB  - Intellect
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Philosophy, Medical
KW  - Social Medicine
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Grey Zone as a Primordial Figure: Greek Origins; 2. Ambiguity as a Social Phenomenon: Reshaping the Greeks; 3. The Elemental Vision of the Split; 4. The Official History and the Unwritten Text; 5. The Relationship of Knowledge to Life; 6. The City of Pigs as Travesty; 7. Health and the City; 8. On Being Old; 9. The Formula: Medicalization and Its Guises; 10. Prosthetics; 11. The Recurrence of the Body; 12. Moods of Being; 13. Conclusion; References
N2  - With The Grey Zone of Health and Illness, Alan Blum offers a new perspective, outlining a highly nuanced theoretical approach to health, illness, suffering and disease and the ethical and aesthetic implications of medical practice. Drawing on a range of thinkers from Plato to Lacan, the book identifies the Grey Zone as the persistence and function of ambiguity in everyday life that requires a complete rethinking of health and sickness, self-governance and negligence. A heady, cutting-edge intervention in a critical area of society, The Grey Zone of Health and Illness will have wide ramificatio
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