Download or read book Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age written by David B. Morris and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Culture of Pain now argues that postmodern illness is created at the interconnection of biology and culture. Morris analyzes the distinctive experience of illness in our time, taking cultural studies into a new area called "biocultural" studies.