Ray Fitzpatrick, John Hinton, Stanton Newman, Graham Scambler, James Thompson

The Experience of Illness (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1984, this book focuses on how patients interpret and act in response to symptoms of illness; secondly on how social and psychological factors influence the treatment process; and thirdly, on certain kinds of illness where the psychosocial perspective is of particular importance to the providers of health care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000577617
• Artikelnr.: 64090205

Autorenporträt

Ray Fitzpatrick is Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford. He continues with NIHR-funded research into the quality and outcomes of health and care services especially for people with long term conditions. Graham Scambler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at UCL, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: Illness and Help Seeking 2. Lay Concepts of Illness 3. The Illness Iceberg and Aspects of Consulting Behaviour 4. Social Class, Ethnicity, and Illness Part 2: The Experience of Treatment 5. Communicating with Patients 6. Compliance 7. Anxiety, Hospitalization and Surgery 8. Satisfaction with Health Care 9. The Psychological Consequences of Cerebrovascular Accident and Head Injury 10. Perceiving and Coping With Stigmatizing Illness 11. Coping with Terminal Illness.