The Experience of Illness

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-25562-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 622 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society

Originally published in 1984, this book focuses, firstly, on how patients interpret and act in response to symptoms of illness; secondly on how social and psychological factors influence the treatment process; and thirdly, on certain kinds of illness where the psychosocial perspective is of particular importance to the providers of health care – for example, chronic or particularly disabling illnesses. It demonstrates how essential it is to bring an interdisciplinary perspective from the social and behavioural sciences to an understanding and interpretation of behaviour in relation to illness. It will be of central concern to all health professionals in training and in practice and to social scientists interested in health care.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fitzpatrick, Ray

Hinton, John

Newman, Stanton

Scambler, Graham

Thompson, James

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizin, Gesundheit: Sachbuch, Ratgeber

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Part 1: Illness and Help Seeking 2. Lay Concepts of Illness 3. The Illness Iceberg and Aspects of Consulting Behaviour 4. Social Class, Ethnicity, and Illness Part 2: The Experience of Treatment 5. Communicating with Patients 6. Compliance 7. Anxiety, Hospitalization and Surgery 8. Satisfaction with Health Care 9. The Psychological Consequences of Cerebrovascular Accident and Head Injury 10. Perceiving and Coping With Stigmatizing Illness 11. Coping with Terminal Illness.

Über Autor(innen)

Ray Fitzpatrick is Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford. He continues with NIHR-funded research into the quality and outcomes of health and care services especially for people with long term conditions. Graham Scambler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at UCL, UK.