Worlds of illness : biographical and cultural perspectives on health and disease/ Alan Radley ed.
By: Radley, Alan
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Contributor(s): Radley, Alan.
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BookPublisher: London : Routledge, 1995Edition: 1st ed.Description: 205p + pbk.ISBN: 0415131529; 9780415131520.Subject(s): Health | Sick -- Psychology | Medicine and psychology | Health -- Psychological aspects | Social medicine | Health and Wellbeing | Cultural studies | Medical sociology | Illness & addiction: social aspects | Sociology & anthropology | Public health & preventive medicine | Clinical & internal medicineDDC classification: 616.0019 RAD Summary: This book examines people's experience of illness, their understanding of what it means to be healthy and illuminates the different worlds of the sick and healthy.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main | 616.0019 RAD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 38888000313647 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 Illnessexamines 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.
Includes bibliograhical references and index.
This book examines people's experience of illness, their understanding of what it means to be healthy and illuminates the different worlds of the sick and healthy.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- 1 Constructing discourse about health and their social determinants
- 2 Social Class and the contextualization of illness experience
- 3 Attitude of mind as a means of resisting illness
- 4 Religion and Illness
- 5 Chronic illness and the pursuit of virtue in everyday life
- 6 The role of metaphor in adjustment to chronic illness
- 7 Why do the victims blame themselves?
- 8 Towards the reconstruction of an organic mental disorder
- 9 The world of illness of the closed head injured
- 10 On knowing the patient: experiences of nurses undertaking care
- 11 On chronic illness: immigrant women in Canada's workforce