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Worlds of illness :

(Number (ISBN

0203435249

(Number (ISBN

0415067693

(Number (ISBN

9780203435243

(Number (ISBN

9780415067690

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b756845

Title Proper

Worlds of illness :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

biographical and cultural perspectives on health and disease /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Alan Radley.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Routledge,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1993.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Text of Note

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Constructing discourses about health and their social determinants; Social class and the contextualization of illness experience; Attitude of mind as a means of resisting illness; Religion and illness; Chronic illness and the pursuit of virtue in everyday life; The role of metaphor in adjustment to chronic illness; Why do the victims blame themselves?; Towards the reconstruction of an organic mental disorder; The world of illness of the closed head injured.

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On knowing the patient: experiences of nurses undertaking careName index; Subject index.

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In recent years the study of illness as experienced by patients has emerged as an approach to understanding sickness. Descriptions of the everyday situations of people with particular diseases, provide a commentary upon the nature of symptoms and upon the relation of the body to society. This approach stresses the biographical and cultural contexts in which illness arises and is borne by individuals and those who care for them. It emphasises the need to understand illness in terms of the patients own interpretation, of its onset, the course of its progress and the potential of the treatment for the condition. Worlds of Illness examines people's experience of illness and their understanding of what it means to be healthy. The contributors are the first to offer this biographic and cultural approach in one volume, redefining the perspective further and drawing attention to its potential for questioning theoretical assumptions about health and illness.

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eBook Library

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EBL180160

Title

Worlds of illness.

International Standard Book Number

0415067693

Clinical health psychology.

Sick-- Psychology.

Social medicine.

Attitude to Health.

Attitude.

Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms.

Behavioral Disciplines and Activities.

Behavioral Sciences.

Delivery of Health Care.

Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.

Named Groups.

Patients-- psychology.

Patients.

Persons.

Psychiatry and Psychology.

Psychology, Social.

Psychology.

Clinical health psychology.

HEALTH & FITNESS-- Diseases-- General.

MEDICAL-- Clinical Medicine.

MEDICAL-- Diseases.

MEDICAL-- Evidence-Based Medicine.

MEDICAL-- Internal Medicine.

Sick-- Psychology.

Social medicine.

HEA-- 039000

MED-- 014000

MED-- 022000

MED-- 045000

MED-- 112000

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Edition

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Book number

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Radley, Alan,1946-

Date of Transaction

20201204170642.0

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