Worlds of illness : biographical and cultural perspectives on health and disease /

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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 approa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Radley, Alan, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
Temas:
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
Santé > Psychologie clinique.
Malades > Psychologie.
Attitudes à l'égard de la santé.
Psychologie sociale.
Prestation de soins.
Psychologie.
Attitude (Psychologie)
Sciences du comportement.
social psychology.
patients.
psychology.
behavioral sciences.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
Humans > Diseases > Psychology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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