TY  - BOOK
AU  - Radley,Alan
TI  - Worlds of illness: biographical and cultural perspectives on health and disease 
SN  - 0203435249
AV  - RA418 .W67 1993eb
U1  - 616/.001/9 22
PY  - 1993///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Clinical health psychology
KW  - Sick
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Health attitudes
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Patients
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Attitude (Psychology)
KW  - psychology
KW  - Attitude to Health
KW  - Psychology, Social
KW  - Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
KW  - Persons
KW  - Delivery of Health Care
KW  - Attitude
KW  - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
KW  - Named Groups
KW  - Behavioral Sciences
KW  - Psychiatry and Psychology
KW  - Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
KW  - Sick Role
KW  - Santé
KW  - Psychologie clinique
KW  - Malades
KW  - Psychologie
KW  - Attitudes à l'égard de la santé
KW  - Psychologie sociale
KW  - Prestation de soins
KW  - Attitude (Psychologie)
KW  - Sciences du comportement
KW  - social psychology
KW  - aat
KW  - patients
KW  - behavioral sciences
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Diseases
KW  - General
KW  - Internal Medicine
KW  - Clinical Medicine
KW  - fast
KW  - Humans
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Constructing discourses about health and their social determinants; Social class and the contextualization of illness experience; Attitude of mind as a means of resisting illness; Religion and illness; Chronic illness and the pursuit of virtue in everyday life; The role of metaphor in adjustment to chronic illness; Why do the victims blame themselves?; Towards the reconstruction of an organic mental disorder; The world of illness of the closed head injured; On knowing the patient: experiences of nurses undertaking careName index; Subject index
N2  - In recent years the study of illness as experienced by patients has emerged as an approach to understanding sickness. Descriptions of the everyday situations of people with particular diseases, provide a commentary upon the nature of symptoms and upon the relation of the body to society. This approach stresses the biographical and cultural contexts in which illness arises and is borne by individuals and those who care for them. It emphasises the need to understand illness in terms of the patients own interpretation, of its onset, the course of its progress and the potential of the treatment for the condition. Worlds of Illness examines people's experience of illness and their understanding of what it means to be healthy. The contributors are the first to offer this biographic and cultural approach in one volume, redefining the perspective further and drawing attention to its potential for questioning theoretical assumptions about health and illness
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