TY  - BOOK
AU  - Twohig,Peter
AU  - Kalitzkus,Vera
ED  - Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease Conference
TI  - Social studies of health, illness and disease: perspectives from the social sciences and humanities 
T2  - At the interface/Probing the boundaries,
SN  - 9781435654891
AV  - RA418 .S63 2008eb
U1  - 362.1 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Health
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Health attitudes
KW  - Chronic diseases
KW  - Pain
KW  - Conformity
KW  - Philosophy, Medical
KW  - Attitude to Health
KW  - Chronic Disease
KW  - Social Conformity
KW  - Sciences sociales
KW  - Recherche
KW  - Méthodologie
KW  - Congrès
KW  - Santé
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Maladies
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Attitudes à l'égard de la santé
KW  - Maladies chroniques
KW  - Douleur
KW  - Conformisme
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Health Care Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Public Health
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - General
KW  - Health Care Delivery
KW  - fast
KW  - Congress
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Conference proceedings
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Actes de congrès
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Outcome of the 4th global conference on "Making sense of: Health, illness and disease", held at Mansfield College, Oxford, in July 2005; Includes bibliographical references; Introduction; Part 1: Body, Self and Illness; Shifting Views of Self: Impact of Chronic Illness Diagnosis on Young Emerging Adult Women; Cancer and the Idea of the Self: Philosophy, Memoir, and Medical Trauma; Part 2: Social and Cultural Context(s); Desirability and Its Discontents: Young People's Responses to Media Images of Health, Beauty and Physical Perfection; Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World Literatures; Devils, Serpents, Zebras: Metaphors of Illness in Contemporary Swedish Literature on Eating Disorders; Part 3: The Ideal Body; Writing Over the Illness: The Symbolic Representation of AlbinismGenetics, Disability and Symbolic Harm; Alcoholism: 'Correction' and the Changing Notions of 'Recovery'; Part 4: Representing Pain: Interdisciplinary Perspectives; Perceptions of Pain in Contemporary Zimbabwean Literature: Personal Public Narratives in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins; Metaphors of Injury: Women Make Sense of Pelvic Pain; Barriers to Talking About Chronic Pain: Insiders' Views on Illness, Self and Responsibility; Part 5: Perspectives on Donation
N2  - Annotation 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
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