The Meaning of Illness

ISBN-13: 9780415001915 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 176 str.

Marc Auge;Claudine Herzlich;Marc Auge

Opis

Offering new ways of understanding the nature of disease, and exploring the idea that health and illness have a special interdependence, The Meaning of Illness shows the positive side of illness and its value in human experience.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, MARK KIDEL; Chapter 2 Illness and meaning, MARK KIDEL; Chapter 3 Items and motion, PETER TATHAM; Chapter 4 Heart abuse, ELIZABETH WILDE McCORMICK; Chapter 5 The doctor versus King Canute: from Georg Groddeck to family therapy, SEBASTIAN KRAEMER; Chapter 6 Health and illness in Chinese society, ROGER HILL; Chapter 7 The meaning of illness: the homoeopathic approach, MISHA NORLAND; Chapter 8 The patient as healer: how we can take part in our own recovery, PAT KITTO; Chapter 9 ‘No, I can’t do that, my consultant wouldn’t like it’ ..., JO SPENCE; Chapter 10 No answer to Job: reflections on the limitations of meaning in illness, ADOLF GUGGENBÜHL-CRAIG, NIEL MICKLEM; Chapter 11 Morbistic rituals, ALFRED J. ZIEGLER;

O autorze

Auge, Marc; Herzlich, Claudine