Medical Humanities Companion: V. 1

ISBN-13: 9781846192869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 146 str.

Martyn Evans; Rolf Ahlzen

Opis

The phrase medical humanities' has a currency that is wider than any agreement as to what it means. This book asks questions and offers answers about the meaning of actual symptoms and of the concept of symptom' as a prelude to a cumulative interdisciplinary understanding of illness as a source of human need, and clinical medicine as a human response to it.

Spis treści

The patients’ stories. Music, interrupted: an illness observed from within. The body as lived experience in health and disease. Issues of privacy and intimacy at the beginnings of illness. Vocabulary of health and illness: the possibilities and limitations of language. Seeing ourselves: interpreting the visual signs of illness. The response to suffering. Another day with a headache: Semiotics of everyday symptoms. Giving meaning to symptoms.

O autorze

Martyn Evans, Rolf Ahlzen, Iona Heath, Jane MacNaughton