Epilepsy

ISBN-13: 9780415017589 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 148 str.

Graham Scambler

Opis

Drawing on patients' accounts, Graham Scambler examines the experience of both epilepsy and the stigma that can accompany it and illuminates the contribution that social science can make to understanding and managing the illness.

Recenzje

`This book and others in the series promise to improve our understanding of what it means to be ill. The best medical practice must find room for that knowledge to improve the delivery of scientific advances in treatment.' - The Lancet

` ... this book is a valuable contribution...' - The British Journal of Psychiatry

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The medical conception of epilepsy; Chapter 2 Becoming a patient: aspects of care; Chapter 3 Lay concepts of epilepsy and stigma; Chapter 4 Strategies for coping and their effects; Chapter 5 The impact of epilepsy on family life; Chapter 6 Epilepsy, work, and disadvantage; Chapter 7 Understanding epilepsy better;

O autorze

Graham Scambler