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Worlds of Illness

Author : Alan Radley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113478936X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Worlds of Illness written by Alan Radley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 approach stresses the biographical and cultural contexts in which illness arises and is borne by individuals and those who care for them. It emphasises the need to understand illness in terms of the patients own interpretation, of its onset, the course of its progress and the potential of the treatment for the condition. Worlds of Illness examines people's experience of illness and their understanding of what it means to be healthy. The contributors are the first to offer this biographic and cultural approach in one volume, redefining the perspective further and drawing attention to its potential for questioning theoretical assumptions about health and illness.

Worlds of Illness

Author : Alan Radley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN 13 : 9786610319299
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Worlds of Illness written by Alan Radley and published by Taylor & Francis Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 approach stresses the biographical and cultural contexts in which illness arises and is borne by individuals and those who care for them. It emphasizes the need to understand illness in terms of the patients' own interpretation, of its onset, the course of its progress and the potential of the treatment for the condition. Worlds of Illness examines people's experience of illness and their understanding of what it means to be healthy. It brings together for the first time in one volume contributors from a variety of fields who use a biographic and cultural approach. Worlds of Illness will be invaluable to all social science researchers, especially to lecturers and students of medical sociology, psychology and anthropology.

Worlds of Illness

Author : Alan Radley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134789351
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Worlds of Illness written by Alan Radley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 approach stresses the biographical and cultural contexts in which illness arises and is borne by individuals and those who care for them. It emphasises the need to understand illness in terms of the patients own interpretation, of its onset, the course of its progress and the potential of the treatment for the condition. Worlds of Illness examines people's experience of illness and their understanding of what it means to be healthy. The contributors are the first to offer this biographic and cultural approach in one volume, redefining the perspective further and drawing attention to its potential for questioning theoretical assumptions about health and illness.

Worlds of Illness

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Illness

Author : Havi Carel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131548739X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Illness written by Havi Carel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a person change when they become ill? And can there be well-being within illness? In this remarkable and thought-provoking book, Havi Carel explores these questions by weaving together the personal story of her own serious illness with insights and reflections drawn from her work as a philosopher. Carel's fresh approach to illness raises some uncomfortable questions about how we all - whether healthcare professionals or not - view the ill and challenges us to become more thoughtful. 'Illness' unravels the tension between the universality of illness and its intensely private, often lonely, nature. It offers a new way of looking at a matter that affects every one of us.

Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology

Author : Carol R. Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306477548
Total Pages : 1103 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology written by Carol R. Ember and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-12-31 with total page 1103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical practitioners and the ordinary citizen are becoming more aware that we need to understand cultural variation in medical belief and practice. The more we know how health and disease are managed in different cultures, the more we can recognize what is "culture bound" in our own medical belief and practice. The Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology is unique because it is the first reference work to describe the cultural practices relevant to health in the world's cultures and to provide an overview of important topics in medical anthropology. No other single reference work comes close to marching the depth and breadth of information on the varying cultural background of health and illness around the world. More than 100 experts - anthropologists and other social scientists - have contributed their firsthand experience of medical cultures from around the world.

The Child's World of Illness

Author : Simon R. Wilkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521029049
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Child's World of Illness written by Simon R. Wilkinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the languages of illness which we use to present our discomforts to others through an exploration of the child's world of illness. It looks at how illness concepts are introduced to children, how the causes of illness and 'germ' rationales are incorporated into the socialisation of children, and how a particular morality about health and illness is expressed.

Illness as Metaphor

Author : Susan Sontag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Illness as Metaphor written by Susan Sontag and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this penetrating analysis of the social attitudes toward various major illnesses - chiefly tuberculosis, the scourge of the 19th century, and cancer, the terror of our own - Susan Sontag demonstrates that "illness is not a metaphor" and shows why "the healthiest way of being ill is one purified of metaphoric thinking." Once tuberculosis was identified as a bacterial infection, it ceased to be a symbol of a romantic fading away or of a sensitive or artistic temperament, and it could be treated and cured. Similarly, we must today cease to think of cancer as a mark of doom, a punishment or a sign of a repressed personality, and recognize it for what it is: one disease among many and often receptive to treatment." -- from back cover.

Making Sense of Illness

Author : Alan Radley
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Illness written by Alan Radley and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are people's beliefs about health? What do they do when they feel ill? Why do they go to the doctor? How do they live with chronic disease. How do people make sense of illness in everyday life?

The Interactive World of Severe Mental Illness

Author : Diana J. Semmelhack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317802853
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis The Interactive World of Severe Mental Illness by : Diana J. Semmelhack

Download or read book The Interactive World of Severe Mental Illness written by Diana J. Semmelhack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our society, medication is often seen as the treatment for severe mental illness, with psychotherapy a secondary treatment. However, quality social interaction may be as important for the recovery of those with severe mental illness as are treatments. This volume makes this point while describing the emotionally moving lives of eight individuals with severe mental illness as they exist in the U.S. mental health system. Offering social and psychological insight into their experiences, these stories demonstrate how patients can create meaningful lives in the face of great difficulties. Based on in-depth interviews with clients with severe mental illness, this volume explores which structures of interaction encourage growth for people with severe mental illness, and which trigger psychological damage. It considers the clients’ relationships with friends, family, peers, spouses, lovers, co-workers, mental health professionals, institutions, the community, and the society as a whole. It focuses specifically on how structures of social interaction can promote or harm psychological growth, and how interaction dynamics affect the psychological well-being of individuals with severe mental illness.

Living with Mental Illness in a Globalised World

Author : Ugo Ikwuka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000382885
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Living with Mental Illness in a Globalised World written by Ugo Ikwuka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with Mental Illness in a Globalised World systematically examines the manifold contributions to the burdens of living with mental illness in a developing and globalised world. It explores the stigma of mental illness, the burden of which compares to the symptoms of and is sometimes considered more disabling than the illness itself. The book starts by reviewing the socio-psychological and cultural processes that contribute to stigma and providing evidence-based interventions to combat it. Chapters critically investigate the ideological and instrumental barriers to mental healthcare and establish that determining the conceptualisations of mental illness helps to unravel the reasons for the underutilisation of mental health services. A compelling case is made for a complementary healthcare model and bottom-up approach that is sensitive to the spiritual and cultural needs of the people. The text’s specific examination of mental healthcare in African countries makes it a timely piece for assisting mental health professionals in understanding the inequities in care that Black Asian and Minority Ethnic groups face and how to improve mental healthcare and delivery to these groups.

An American Sickness

Author : Elisabeth Rosenthal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698407180
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book An American Sickness written by Elisabeth Rosenthal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.

The Impact of Illness on World Leaders

Author : Bert E. Park, M.D.
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512805408
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Impact of Illness on World Leaders written by Bert E. Park, M.D. and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Impact of Illness on World Leaders, Bert E. Park explores the relationship between leadership and neurologic illness. Basing his study on a rigorous examination of primary and secondary source material from medicine, history, and political science, Park diagnoses illnesses which affected the thinking and actions of Anthony Eden and Adolf Hitler, among others. He discusses the historical situations in which these political leaders functioned and the effects their illnesses might have had on the decisions they made. Park argues that the impact of aging and disease on leadership abilities is an important, potentially devastating problem which has been ignored by the people in a position to deal with it. Physicians who attend men in power, supported by government officials and politicians, often disguise their patients' infirmities and keep them in office long after they are able to function effectively. In those few instances when the problem has been addressed, it has often been done by journalists or other persons not qualified to make a medical judgment about a leader's health, and they have relayed erroneous information (e.g., the myth of Hitler's syphilis). Part of the goal of The Impact of Illness on World Leaders is to correct such popular misconceptions. Park concludes his study of leadership and illness with suggestions for monitoring the health of leaders and deposing them if their health compromises their ability to lead.

Global Public Health Vigilance

Author : Lorna Weir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135159165
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Global Public Health Vigilance written by Lorna Weir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and analyzes the transformations in global mechanisms for monitoring infectious disease outbreaks that have occurred since the mid-1990s. This book examines early warning outbreak detection, which operates electronically through the Internet to identify infectious disease outbreaks that may lead to international health emergencies.

The World of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Author : Dana Fennell
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479820326
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book The World of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder written by Dana Fennell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Informs, equips, empowers, and inspires readers to be the change and nurturance we can be to empathetically uplift, sustain, and advance people with OCD.” —Michael J. Lenaghan, Mardee Jenrette Endowed Chair of Teaching Excellence Professor, Miami Dade College Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) affects millions of people worldwide and looms large in popular culture, for instance when people quip about being “so OCD.” However, this sometimes has little relation to the actual experiences of people diagnosed with the disorder. In The World of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Dana Fennell explores the lives of people who have OCD, giving us fresh insight into a highly misunderstood, trivialized, and sometimes stigmatized mental disorder that has no surefire cure. Drawing primarily on interviews with people who have OCD, Fennell shows us the diversity of ways the disorder manifests, when and why people come to perceive themselves as having a problem, what treatment options they pursue, and how they make sense of and manage their lives. From those who have obsessions about their sexuality and relationships, to those who check repeatedly to make sure they have not caused harm, she sheds light on the hopes, expectations, and difficulties that people with OCD encounter. Fennell reveals how people cope in the face of this misunderstood disorder, including how they manage the barriers they face in the workplace and society. An eye-opening read, The World of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder encourages us to consider, empathize with, and take steps to improve the lives of people with mental health issues. “Dana Fennell’s exceptional book explores the too often misunderstood experience of OCD.” —David A. Karp, author of The Burden of Sympathy: How Families Cope with Mental Illness

Unseen

Author : Jacinta Parsons
Publisher : Affirm Press
ISBN 13 : 1922400440
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Unseen written by Jacinta Parsons and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacinta Parsons was in her twenties when she first began to feel unwell - the kind of unwell that didn't go away. Doctors couldn't explain why, and Jacinta wondered if it might be in her head. But she could barely function, was frequently unable to eat or get out of bed for days, and gradually turned into a shadow of herself. Eventually she got a diagnosis, but knowing she had Crohn's disease wouldn't stop her life from spiralling into a big mess of doctors, hospitals and medical disasters. With chronic illness her constant companion, she had to learn how to function in a world set up for the well. What's most extraordinary about Jacinta's story is how common it is. Nearly half of Australians live with a chronic illness, but most of these conditions are not obvious, often endured in secrecy and little understood. They are unseen. With compelling candour, Jacinta trains a microscope on the unique challenges of living with an invisible condition. She lays bare the struggles with shame, loss of identity, the threat of mortality, and the profoundly complex relationships between the chronically ill and their own bodies, as well as with those around them. It's a story of trying to fix an unfixable illness, getting beaten down then clawing back up, and how that experience can shape a life.

Selling Sickness

Author : Ray Moynihan
Publisher : Greystone Books
ISBN 13 : 1926706684
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Selling Sickness written by Ray Moynihan and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this hard-hitting indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, Ray Moynihan and Allan Cassels show how drug companies are systematically using their dominating influence in the world of medical science, drug companies are working to widen the very boundaries that define illness. Mild problems are redefined as serious illness, and common complaints are labeled as medical conditions requiring drug treatments. Runny noses are now allergic rhinitis, PMS has become a psychiatric disorder, and hyperactive children have ADD. Selling Sickness reveals how expanding the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits, in turn threatening to bankrupt national healthcare systems all over the world. This Canadian edition includes an introduction placing the issue in a Canadian context and describing why Canadians should be concerned about the problem.