Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introducing material; discursive approaches to health and illness Lucy Yardley; Introducing discursive methods Lucy Yardley; What role does the body have in illness? Alan Radley; Interpretative phenomenological analysis and the psychology of health and illness Jonathan A. Smith, Paul Flowers and Mike Osborn; Social and material ecologies for hearing impairment William Noble; Disorientation in the (post) modern world Lucy Yardley.
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Accessible introduction to social constructionist and discursive approaches to the field of health psychology which, unlike traditional models uses the person's experience and feelings as the central focus of interest.