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9780335208371

Experiencing and Explaining Disease

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  • ISBN13:

    9780335208371

  • ISBN10:

    0335208371

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-06-01
  • Publisher: Open University Press

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Summary

Experiencing and Explaining Disease examines the different accounts of disease causation produced by research in epidemiology, biology and sociology, and the different meanings attached to states of illness by doctors, patients and the media. It explores the ways in which prevailing social norms affect the status of the sick person, and seeks explanations for the stigmatisation that discriminates against people with certain conditions, while others are considered 'innocent victims' of disease. These themes are developed in five case studies of highly contrasting conditions: rheumatoid arthritis, HIV and AIDS, asthma, schizophrenia and chronic pain. These case studies illustrate the complex difficulties for lay people and professionals in explaining and managing the disease and the physical, social and emotional dimensions of the illness experience.This book will be an invaluable text for students of health studies, social work, social policy, the social sciences, medicine, nursing and other health professionals, and for a wide range of lay people, including patients and carers.

Author Biography

Basiro Davey is Senior Lecturer in Health Studies at the Department of Biological Sciences at the Open University.

Clive Seale is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths' College at the University of London.

Table of Contents

A note for the general reader 6(2)
Study guide for OU students 8(3)
Making sense of illness
11(10)
Basiro Davey
Stigma and normality
21(24)
Clive Seale
Rheumatoid arthritis
45(38)
Gareth Williams
Ray Fitzpatrick
Alex J. MacGregor
Alan S. Rigby
HIV and AIDS
83(54)
Basiro Davey
Graham Hart
Asthma
137(42)
Bill Bytheway
Basiro Davey
Schizophrenia
179(40)
Jacqueline Atkinson
Daniel Nettle
Pain and suffering
219(26)
Clive Seale
Basiro Davey
Experiencing and explaining disease: some conclusions
245(16)
Clive Seale
Basiro Davey
References and further sources 261(19)
Answers to questions 280(9)
Acknowledgements 289(2)
Index 291

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