Making Sense of Illness
| Author | : Robert A. Aronowitz |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9780521558259 |
This 1998 book contains historical essays about how diseases change their meaning.
Making Sense Of Health Illness And Disease
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Making Sense of Illness
| Author | : Alan Radley |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 1994-12-13 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1446265188 |
`This book is a "must read" for all students of health psychology, and will be of considerable interest and value to others interested in the field. The discipline has not involved itself with the central issues of this book so far, but Radley has now brought this material together in an accessible way, offering important new perspectives, and directions for the discipline. This book goes a long way towards making sense for, and of, health psychology′ - Journal of Health Psychology 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? This introduction to the social psychology of health and illness addresses these and other questions about how people make sense of illness in everyday life, either alone or with the help of others. Alan Radley reviews findings from medical sociology, health psychology and medical anthropology to demonstrate the relevance of social and psychological explanations to questions about disease and its treatment. Topics covered include: illness, the patient and society; ideas about health and staying healthy; recognizing symptoms and falling ill; and the healing relationship: patients, nurses and doctors. The author also presents a critical account of related issues - stress, health promotion and gender differences.
The Meaning Management Challenge: Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2020-05-06 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1848880235 |
The chapters in this collection, representing the multidisciplinary character of the conference, provide a careful exposition on health, illness, and disease from disciplines that are sometimes neglected or dismissed by so-called pure science or medical research.
Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease
| Author | : Peter Twohig |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9789042011199 |
Health, illness and disease are topics well-suited to interdisciplinary inquiry. This book brings together scholars from around the world who share an interest in and a commitment to bridging the traditional boundaries of inquiry. We hope that this book begins new conversations that will situate health in broader socio-cultural contexts and establish connections between health, illness and disease and other socio-political issues. This book is the outcome of the first global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in June 2002. The selected papers pursue a range of topics from the cultural significance of narratives of health, illness and disease to healing practices in contemporary society as well as patients' illness experiences. Researchers and health care practitioners now live in the age of interdisciplinarity, which has transformed both health care delivery and research on health. The essays in this collection transcend the traditional boundaries of biomedicine and draw attention to the many ways in which health is embedded in socio-cultural norms and how these norms, in turn, shape health practices and health care. This volume is of interest not only to researchers but also to those delivering health care.
The Tapestry of Health, Illness and Disease
| Author | : Vera Kalitzkus |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9042025158 |
Human suffering and illness as well as health and healing are topics of ongoing actuality. In a world of growing complexity and interrelatedness a broader perspective on these topics is needed. The global conference project on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease” is a forum for scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 5th conference held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2006. It combines essays that transgress traditional disciplinary boundaries in the field of health care delivery and medicine. It thus will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care providers who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which health, illness and disease can be understood.
Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2021-10-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004494898 |
Health, illness and disease are topics well-suited to interdisciplinary inquiry. This book brings together scholars from around the world who share an interest in and a commitment to bridging the traditional boundaries of inquiry. We hope that this book begins new conversations that will situate health in broader socio-cultural contexts and establish connections between health, illness and disease and other socio-political issues. This book is the outcome of the first global conference on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease,” held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in June 2002. The selected papers pursue a range of topics from the cultural significance of narratives of health, illness and disease to healing practices in contemporary society as well as patients’ illness experiences. Researchers and health care practitioners now live in the age of interdisciplinarity, which has transformed both health care delivery and research on health. The essays in this collection transcend the traditional boundaries of biomedicine and draw attention to the many ways in which health is embedded in socio-cultural norms and how these norms, in turn, shape health practices and health care. This volume is of interest not only to researchers but also to those delivering health care.
Perceptions of Health and Illness
| Author | : Keith J. Petrie |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 2013-12-19 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 1134401612 |
First Published in 1997. The study of how individuals perceive and make sense of health and illness is a new and rapidly developing area in health psychology. The field has seen important recent theoretical developments and applications to a wide range of health threats and illnesses. The first section of this book examines the current theoretical and measurement issues in the field and includes issues related to illness perceptions across the lifespan, disability, and the assessment of illness representations in chronic illness. The second section addresses the role of illness perceptions in health screening and prevention and includes work on perceptions of genetic disease, cancer screening, and how individuals process health risk information. The third section is concerned with the application of the illness perceptions approach to patients with chronic illness and those undergoing treatment. Illnesses examined using this approach include chronic fatigue syndrome, breast cancer, diabetes, and myocardial infarction.
Social Studies of Health, Illness and Disease
| Author | : Peter Twohig |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9042024054 |
The studies of the human being in health and illness and how he can be cared for is concerned with more than the biological aspects and thus calls for a broader perspective. Social sciences and medical humanities give insight into the context and conditions of being ill, caring for the ill, and understanding disease in a respective socio-cultural frame. This book brings together scholars from various countries who are interested in deepening the interdisciplinary discourse on the subject. This book is the outcome of the 4th global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2005. This volume will be of interest to students in the medical humanities, researchers as well as health care provider who wish to gain insight into the various perspectives through which we can understand health, illness and disease. It has been brought to our attention that in a chapter in this volume "Media Treatment of Organ Donation: A Case Study in Switzerland" By Peter J. Schulz direct reference and citation of the works of other scholars is often inconsistent and in some cases totally lacking. While we do not believe that it was the intention of the author of the article to misappropriate other persons' material, we do admit that the chapter does not meet standards currently expected of an academic publication. We regret any misappropriation of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions in our publications and will remain vigilant to prevent this recurring in the future. We give notice that the chapter has been retracted and will not appear in any future editions of the book. Brill, February 2016
Chronicity Enquiries: Making Sense of Chronic Illness
| Author | : Li Zhenyi |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2019-01-04 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1848881509 |
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013. Chronic illness, together with people experiencing or treating it, became almost mute to predominant biomedical narration pervasive in mainstream media, education, medical and pharmaceutical industry. Contributors in this book aim to represent, discuss, and preserve the vanishing voices and stories on chronic illness from dimensions beyond medicine so that we may make sense of chronicity with the diversity it deserves. The book also incorporates research articles which share important stories about chronicity. These stories, same as chronic illness in our world, should not be treated in a ‘standardised’ way. Each reader, we hope, will relate the meanings of chronicity in this book to his or her own world.
Illness, Bodies and Contexts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2020-05-18 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1848880286 |
This volume is a result of four days in July 2005, where historians, health economists, medical doctors and nurses, anthropologists, writers, sociologists and many more travelled to Oxford, England for the fourth annual 'Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease' conference organised by Inter-Disciplinary.Net.
