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Worlds of Illness: Biographical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Disease

Worlds of Illness: Biographical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Disease

Radley, Alan

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Health GeneralGeneral ParentingPoverty & Social Work

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ISBN10: 0415067693
ISBN13: 9780415067690
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 25 1993
Pages: 224
Language: English
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.

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