Ashley P. Duggan (Massachusetts Boston College)

Health and Illness in Close Relationships

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written for academic researchers, students, and health professionals, this is the first volume to review and synthesize the current literature on health and illness in close relationships. The author provides an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health trajectories and relationship processes.

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Produktdetails

• Advances in Personal Relationships
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9781108412643
• ISBN-10: 1108412645
• Artikelnr.: 60009917

Autorenporträt

Ashley P. Duggan is an Associate Professor in the Communication Department and the Medical Humanities Program at Boston College, Massachusetts. She is also the Co-Director of the Department of Family Medicine Research Division at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. The Unique Context of Health and Illness in Close
Relationships: 1. Defining health and illness; 2. Close relationship
processes; 3. Attributes of the health and illness context for relationship
processes; Part II. Health/Illness, the Body, and Relational Processes: 4.
Relationships as buffering or exacerbating health/illness outcomes; 5.
Reconsidering embodiment and language for illness; 6. Relationship theories
applied to illness transitions; Part III. Integrated Theory of Health /
Illness Trajectories and Relational Processes: 7. Theorizing close
relationships and health/illness trajectories: co-created, co-generative,
and systematic processes; 8. Integrated co-generative, systematic processes
and considerations for interdisciplinary understanding.