Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Patient-centered Approach

by Murdoch, Campbell

• ISBN13: 9781857759075
• ISBN10: 1857759079
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

Chronic fatigue syndrome is an illness that affects millions of people all over the world and has caused enormous controversy wherever people have been affected. This book examines the validity of chronic fatigue syndrome and explores the problems faced in addressing this illness.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome demonstrates how the patient-centered clinical method can assist clinicians to learn how to diagnose this complex psychosocial disorder. It addresses the central concern of the patient and their experience of illness in addition to the biomedical issues of care. It provides patient-centered perspectives as an approach to better understanding of the symptoms of the condition, its origins, consequences and meanings for the patient, and its management.
This book will be an important resource for family doctors, psychologists, specialists in rheumatology, and all professionals in primary healthcare teams.

Table of Contents

Series editors' introduction	p. vii
About the authors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
The magnitude of the problem of chronic fatigue syndrome	p. 1
The illness experience	p. 27
Is there a disease called chronic fatigue syndrome?	p. 47
Understanding the whole person	p. 77
Mad, bad or dangerous to know? The societal context of chronic fatigue syndrome	p. 99
The patient-clinician relationship	p. 115
Finding the appropriate treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome	p. 137
Index	p. 163
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