ENGL 3603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lauren Slater, Arthur Kleinman, Fluoxetine
20 Feb 2016
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Shows the attitude towards women at this time. One of the first patients to be treated with prozac. Written from the perceptive of oneself within a. Diaries were allowed to be written by women because they were in the private. Diaries do not need more plot, speaking of specific characters, fragmented form. Day to day nature of diary writing. One might expect that prozac diary would be more directly autobiographical, a narrative dedicated to her suffering from and recovering from depression. But as its title suggests, it focuses not on the experience of depression but rather on her drug regimen. Disability as metaphor: what"s wrong with lying. prose studies 27. 1&2 (2005): 141-154. The book is more about the treatment than her illness, reveals more about. In light of these findings, the patient"s past, the story of self, is no longer relevant. We do not need to explain mental illness in the context of history.
