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The Meaning of Illness

Author : Mark and Herzlich Auge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113434645X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Illness written by Mark and Herzlich Auge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on collective research carried out during the 1980s. This edition appears ten years after the original publication in French. Since then we have experienced many changes. In the late decade, disciplines have changed, as have the societies being researched. The outbreak of AIDS in Africa and the industrial world is not the least of these major and influential changes. The reader today will be sensitive to these changes and this research maintains its value as an intellectual endeavour and a useful model.

The Meaning of Illness

Author : S. Kay Toombs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401126305
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Illness written by S. Kay Toombs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work provides a phenomenological account of the experience of illness and the manner in which meaning is constituted by the patient and the physician. The author provides a detailed account of the way in which illness and body are apprehended differently by doctor and patient. This title has been awarded the first Edwin Goodwin Ballard Prize in Phenomenology.

The Illness Narratives

Author : Arthur Kleinman
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 154167460X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Illness Narratives written by Arthur Kleinman and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's most celebrated psychiatrists, the book that has taught generations of healers why healing the sick is about more than just diagnosing their illness. Modern medicine treats sick patients like broken machines -- figure out what is physically wrong, fix it, and send the patient on their way. But humans are not machines. When we are ill, we experience our illness: we become scared, distressed, tired, weary. Our illnesses are not just biological conditions, but human ones. It was Arthur Kleinman, a Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist, who saw this truth when most of his fellow doctors did not. Based on decades of clinical experience studying and treating chronic illness, The Illness Narratives makes a case for interpreting the illness experience of patients as a core feature of doctoring. Before Being Mortal, there was The Illness Narratives. It remains today a prescient and passionate case for bridging the gap between patient and practitioner.

Health and Illness in Close Relationships

Author : Ashley P. Duggan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110832973X
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Health and Illness in Close Relationships by : Ashley P. Duggan

Download or read book Health and Illness in Close Relationships written by Ashley P. Duggan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and Illness in Close Relationships provides an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health trajectories and relationship processes. It is the first volume to review and synthesize current empirical evidence and associated theoretical constructs from the literature on health and illness in close relationships across the social and behavioral sciences. In doing so, it provides a unique cross-disciplinary understanding of how health and illness redefine relationships. The volume also maps out an explanatory framework of how the pathways and processes of close relationships pose considerations for resilience and flourishing or, on the contrary, for relational and health decline. It will appeal to researchers and students across psychology, communication, and relationship studies, as well as to health professionals who are interested in understanding how health conditions can shape or be shaped by patients' close relationships.

Speaking of Sadness

Author : David A. Karp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190260963
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Speaking of Sadness written by David A. Karp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Speaking of Sadness, based on fifty in-depth interviews, provides first-hand accounts of the depression experience while discovering clear regularities in the ways that personal identities are shaped over the course of an "illness career." The new edition of the book is highlighted by a thoroughly new and extensive introduction"--

Illness Behavior

Author : Sean McHugh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468452576
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Illness Behavior written by Sean McHugh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August, 1985, the 2nd International Conference on Illness Behaviour was held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The first International Conference took place one year previous in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. This book is based on the proceedings of the second conference. The purpose behind this conference was to facilitate the development of a single integrated model to account for illness experience and presentation. A major focus of the conference was to outline methodological issues related to current behaviour research. A multidiscipl~nary approach was emphasized because of the bias that collaborative efforts are likely to be the most successful in achieving greater understanding of illness behaviour. Significant advances in our knowledge are occurring in all areas of the biological and social sciences, albeit more slowly in the latter areas. Marked specialization in each of these areas has lead to greater difficulty in integrating new knowledge with that of other areas and the development of a meaningful cohesive model to which all can relate. Thus there is a major need for forums such as that provided by this conference.

The Healing Power of Illness

Author : Thorwald Dethfefsen
Publisher : Sentient+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1591813042
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book The Healing Power of Illness written by Thorwald Dethfefsen and published by Sentient+ORM. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic book, long out of print in English, challenges accepted ideas of illness by suggesting it’s not an enemy to be fought. When you see your symptoms as bodily expressions of psychological or spiritual conflicts, you can use them as guides to inner work. You can respond to troubles with infection, allergies, respiration, digestion, skin, nervous system, heart and circulation, sexuality and pregnancy, even accidents, with practical actions that heal the heart and mind.

Phenomenology of Illness

Author : Havi Carel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199669651
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Phenomenology of Illness written by Havi Carel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of illness is a universal and substantial part of human existence. Like death, illness raises important philosophical issues. But unlike death, illness, and in particular the experience of being ill, has received little philosophical attention. This may be because illness is often understood as a physiological process that falls within the domain of medical science, and is thus outside the purview of philosophy. In Phenomenology of Illness Havi Carel argues that the experience of illness has been wrongly neglected by philosophers and proposes to fill the lacuna. Phenomenology of Illness provides a distinctively philosophical account of illness. Using phenomenology, the philosophical method for first-person investigation, Carel explores how illness modifies the ill person's body, values, and world. The aim of Phenomenology of Illness is twofold: to contribute to the understanding of illness through the use of philosophy and to demonstrate the importance of illness for philosophy. Contra the philosophical tendency to resist thinking about illness, Carel proposes that illness is a philosophical tool. Through its pathologising effect, illness distances the ill person from taken for granted routines and habits and reveals aspects of human existence that normally go unnoticed. Phenomenology of Illness develops a phenomenological framework for illness and a systematic understanding of illness as a philosophical tool.

Material Discourses of Health and Illness

Author : Lucy Yardley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134773811
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Material Discourses of Health and Illness written by Lucy Yardley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material Discourses of Health and Illness applies discursive approaches to the field of health psychology, in stark contrast to the bio-medical model of health and illness. The discursive approach uses the person's experience and feelings as the central focus of interest, whereas the more traditional models regarded these as coincidental and relatively unimportant. The book provides an accessible and compelling introduction to social constructionist and discursive approaches to those with limited previous knowledge of socio-linguistic theory and research. It provides practical examples of how these approaches can be applied to the field of health psychology with a collection of sophisticated discursive analyses which demonstrate the distinctive contribution that can be made by psychologists to a field that has been largely dominated by sociologists and anthropologists.

Making Sense of Illness

Author : Robert A. Aronowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558259
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Illness written by Robert A. Aronowitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1998 book contains historical essays about how diseases change their meaning.

The Hidden Meaning of Illness

Author : Bob Trowbridge
Publisher : A.R.E. Press (Association of Research & Enlightenment)
ISBN 13 : 9780876043585
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Meaning of Illness written by Bob Trowbridge and published by A.R.E. Press (Association of Research & Enlightenment). This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trowbridge, a former Presbyterian minister and counselor, examines how illness represents only a symbol of our real problems -- imbalances in our thinking, attitudes, and feelings. Explains illness's origins, how to understand it, how to heal it and our spiritual selves.

Phenomenological Bioethics

Author : Fredrik Svenaeus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351808737
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Phenomenological Bioethics written by Fredrik Svenaeus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging medical technologies are changing our views on human nature and what it means to be alive, healthy, and leading a good life. Reproductive technologies, genetic diagnosis, organ transplantation, and psychopharmacological drugs all raise existential questions that need to be tackled by way of philosophical analysis. Yet questions regarding the meaning of life have been strangely absent from medical ethics so far. This book brings phenomenology, the main player in the continental tradition of philosophy, to bioethics, and it does so in a comprehensive and clear manner. Starting out by analysing illness as an embodied, contextualized, and narrated experience, the book addresses the role of empathy, dialogue, and interpretation in the encounter between health-care professional and patient. Medical science and emerging technologies are then brought to scrutiny as endeavours that bring enormous possibilities in relieving human suffering but also great risks in transforming our fundamental life views. How are we to understand and deal with attempts to change the predicaments of coming to life and the possibilities of becoming better than well or even, eventually, surviving death? This is the first book to bring the phenomenological tradition, including philosophers such as Martin Heidegger, Edith Stein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, Hans Jonas, and Charles Taylor, to answer such burning questions.

Illness as Metaphor

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Illness as Metaphor written by Susan Sontag and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medical Sociology in Africa

Author : Jimoh Amzat
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319039865
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Medical Sociology in Africa written by Jimoh Amzat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive discussion of classical ideas, core topics, currents and detailed theoretical underpinnings in medical sociology. It is a globally renowned source and reference for those interested in social dimensions of health and illness. The presentation is enriched with explanatory and illustrative styles. The design and illustration of details will shift the minds of the readers from mere classroom discourse to societal context (the space of health issues), to consider the implications of those ideas in a way that could guide health interventions. The elemental strengths are the sociological illustrations from African context, rooted in deep cultural interpretations necessitated because Africa bears a greater brunt of health problems. More so, the classical and current epistemological and theoretical discourse presented in this book are indicative of core themes in medical sociology in particular, but cut across a multidisciplinary realm including health social sciences (e.g., medical anthropology, health psychology, medical demography, medical geography and health economics) and health studies (medicine, public health, epidemiology, bioethics and medical humanities) in general. Therefore, apart from the book’s relevance as a teaching text of medical sociology for academics, it is also meant for students at various levels and all health professionals who require a deeper understanding of social dimensions of health and illness (with illustrations from the African context) and sociological contributions to health studies in general.

Meaning of Illness

Author : Marc Augé
Publisher : Harwood Academic Pub
ISBN 13 : 9783718604265
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Meaning of Illness written by Marc Augé and published by Harwood Academic Pub. This book was released on 1988-06-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Body Language of Illness

Author : Eleanor Limmer
Publisher : Freedom Press (WA)
ISBN 13 : 9780967818313
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Body Language of Illness written by Eleanor Limmer and published by Freedom Press (WA). This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body language of Illness offers a clear, effective method of inquiry by which the mental, emotional, and spiritual messages of illness can be discovered, understood, and answered. This method of inquiry allows us to access and understand these messages ourselves, rather than having to depend upon prescribed lists of general meanings. Through this discovery, the meanings of illness can have a personal significance that can help heal us. Illnesses symbolize specific conflicts that can be recognized, understood, and healed.

On Epidemics

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book On Epidemics written by Hippocrates and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On Epidemics" by Hippocrates (translated by Francis Adams). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.