Alan Radley

Worlds of Illness

Biographical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Disease

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines peoples experience of illness, their understanding of what it means to be healthy, and illuminates the different worlds of the sick and healthy. First known book to do this in one volume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 138mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780415131520
• ISBN-10: 0415131529
• Artikelnr.: 21683178

Autorenporträt

Alan Radley

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Alan Radley 1. Constructing discourse about health and their
social determinants Janine Pierret 2. Social Class and the
contextualization of illness experience Alan Blair 3. Attitude of mind as a
means of resisting illness Kristian Pollock 4. Religion and Illness Rory
Williams 5. Chronic illness and the pursuit of virtue in everyday life
Gareth Williams 6. The role of metaphor in adjustment to chronic illness
Alan Ridley 7. Why do the victims blame themselves? Mildred Blaxter 8.
Towards the reconstruction of an organic mental disorder Tom Kitwood 9. The
world of illness of the closed head injured Paul Bellaby 10. On knowing the
patient: experiences of nurses undertaking care Martha MacLeod 11. On
chronic illness: immigrant women in Canada's workforce Joan Anderson