Beginning with an individual's subjective experience of ill health, this text looks at how this feeling relates to the social construction of illness, and the idea of illness as an object of knowledge, a source of meaning, and a political issue. It then investigates what it means to return to a state of wellbeing.
Beginning with an individual's subjective experience of ill health, this text looks at how this feeling relates to the social construction of illness, and the idea of illness as an object of knowledge, a source of meaning, and a political issue. It then investigates what it means to return to a state of wellbeing.
Christopher D. Ward is Emeritus Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is also a UKCP-accredited systemic psychotherapist. He edited Meanings of ME: Interpersonal and Social Dimensions of Chronic Fatigue, 2015.
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Preface A note to patients, clients and families PART I: Illness 1 Introduction 2 Images 3 Knowledges 4 Feelings 5 Appearances 6 Meanings PART II: Recovery 7 Possibilities 8 Obstructions 9 Resources 10 Abilities 11 A Doctor's Note