Worlds of illness : biographical and cultural perspectives on health and disease
Publication details: London : Routledge, 1993ISBN:- 0415131529
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Summary: Examines people's experience of illness & their understanding of what it means to be healthy.
Constructing discourses about health & their social determinants ; Social class & the contextualization of illness experience ; Attitude of mind as a means of resisting illness ; Religion & illness ; Chronic illness & 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 care
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Constructing discourses about health & their social determinants ; Social class & the contextualization of illness experience ; Attitude of mind as a means of resisting illness ; Religion & illness ; Chronic illness & 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 care
Examines people's experience of illness & their understanding of what it means to be healthy.
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