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Health, Illness, and Healing: Society, Social Context, and Self: An Anthology

Health, Illness, and Healing: Society, Social Context, and Self: An Anthology

Charmaz, Kathy
Paterniti, Debora A.

Paperback

Health GeneralMedical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0195329767
ISBN13: 9780195329766
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 1 1998
Pages: 600
Weight: 2.33
Height: 1.26 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
This innovative collection offers a fresh look at health, healing, and illness--providing a bridge between human experience and social policies and practices. The book brings people with illness into the foreground; it goes beyond patient's roles and into their lives--emphasizing the gap between the acute care model and the needs of the chronically ill.

The readings link personal accounts with structural problems, inviting students to identify with these authors and to see the social issues within their stories. Selections are accessible and edited for succinctness. Section and chapter introductions bring the articles into focus and guide student reading. Discussion questions stimulate critical thinking, and suggested readings direct students to pivotal references.

Throughout the book, coverage demonstrates how gender, race, class, and age affect patients and players within the health-care system. Stories help students reexamine their assumptions about medical care shoulds and oughts and to think critically about future priorities and trends. Other articles cover:

* Illness and identity

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