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Title Worlds of illness : biographical and cultural perspectives on health and disease / edited by Alan Radley
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
On knowing the patient: experiences of nurses undertaking careName index; Subject index
Summary 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
Analysis Humans Diseases Psychology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Social medicine.
Clinical health psychology.
Sick -- Psychology.
Health attitudes.
Social psychology.
Patients.
Medical care.
Psychology.
Attitude (Psychology)
Patients -- psychology
Attitude to Health
Psychology, Social
Patients
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
Persons
Delivery of Health Care
Psychology
Attitude
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
Named Groups
Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry and Psychology
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Sick Role
Patient Care
social psychology.
patients.
psychology.
behavioral sciences.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
Social psychology
Psychology
Patients
Medical care
Health attitudes
Attitude (Psychology)
Clinical health psychology
Sick -- Psychology
Social medicine
Form Electronic book
Author Radley, Alan, 1946-
ISBN 0203435249
9780203435243
0415067693
9780415067690