Making sense of health, illness and disease / edited by Peter L. Twohig & Vera Kalitzkus.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Twohig, Peter, editor.

Kalitzkus, Vera, editor.

Series:

At the interface/probing the boundaries ; Volume 11.

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries Series ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Sick--Psychology.

Sick.

Chronic diseases--Social aspects.

Chronic diseases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, [2004]

Summary:

Health, illness and disease are topics well-suited to interdisciplinary inquiry. This book brings together scholars from around the world who share an interest in and a commitment to bridging the traditional boundaries of inquiry. We hope that this book begins new conversations that will situate health in broader socio-cultural contexts and establish connections between health, illness and disease and other socio-political issues. This book is the outcome of the first global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in June 2002. The selected papers pursue a range of topics from the cultural significance of narratives of health, illness and disease to healing practices in contemporary society as well as patients' illness experiences. Researchers and health care practitioners now live in the age of interdisciplinarity, which has transformed both health care delivery and research on health. The essays in this collection transcend the traditional boundaries of biomedicine and draw attention to the many ways in which health is embedded in socio-cultural norms and how these norms, in turn, shape health practices and health care. This volume is of interest not only to researchers but also to those delivering health care.

Contents:

Vera KALITZKUS and Peter L. TWOHIG: Introduction

Part 1 Theoretical and Historical Approaches

Harold SCHWEIZER: The Question of Meaning in Suffering

Gloria Nne ONYEOZIRI: The Scholarship of Blindness and the Blindness of Scholarship

Jayanta BHATTACHARYA: The Body: Epistemological Encounters in Colonial India

Betty BEDNARSKI: Putting Medicine in its Place: The Case of Physician-Writer Jacques Ferron

Louise PENNER: Florence Nightingale's Sensational Narratives of Contagion and Contamination

Part 2 Narratives and Metaphors

Catherine GARRETT: Meaning and Spirituality in Stories of Chronic Illness

Emma GOVAN: Entertaining Illness

Sofie VANDAMME and Arko ODERWALD: Myths and Metaphors of Illness Reconsidered: Nancy versus Sontag

Part 3 Healing Practices Today

Peter L. TWOHIG, Wayne PUTNAM, Lois JACKSON, Fred BURGE and Jafina COX: "Shades of Grey": A Qualitative Inquiry of Evidence and Contemporary Family Practice

Jarmila MILDORF: Narratives of Domestic Violence Cases: GPs Defining Their Professional Role

Bernie WARREN: Treating Wellness: How Clown Doctors Help to Humanize Health Care and Promote Good Health

Celia E. BANDMAN, Bernard M. BANDMAN, Patricia A. BARR, and Letha E. MILLS: The Medical Humanist: A Pilot Program in the Cancer Center Setting

Part 4 Making Sense of Living with Illness

Susan L. MILLS: Living Well with Chronic Illness

Jane APPLETON: Ethical Issues in Narrative Research in Palliative Care

Emma-Jane SAYERS and Miles LITTLE: Post-Cancer Distress in Some Cancer Survivors: Well-being, Self-determination Theory and a Downward Cycle

Vera KALITZKUS: Life "In Limbo": Donor Families, Organ Recipients and their Experience in Germany.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP17.50 0.

ISBN:

9789004494893

9004494898

OCLC:

1153303838

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004494893 DOI