Worlds of illness : biographical and cultural perspectives on health and disease / edited by Alan Radley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Radley, Alan, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine.

Clinical health psychology.

Sick--Psychology.

Sick.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines peoples experience of illness, their understanding of what it means to be healthy, and illuminates the different worlds of the sick and healthy. First known book to do this in one volume.

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;

Notes:

A Tavistock/Routledge publication.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-134-78935-1

1-280-31929-1

1-134-78936-X

0-203-43524-9

9786610319299

9780203435243

OCLC:

304072208