Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease

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Peter Twohig, Vera Kalitzkus
Rodopi, 2004 - 195 páginas
The study of health care brings one into contact with many disciplines and perspectives, including those of the provider and the patient. There are also multiple academic lenses through which one can view health, illness and disease. This book brings together scholars from around the world who are interested in developing new conversations intended to situate health in broader social and cultural contexts. This book is the outcome of the second global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," held at St Hilda's College, Oxford, in July 2003. The selected papers pursue a range of topics and incorporate perspectives from the humanities, social sciences and clinical sciences.
This volume will be of interest to researchers and health care practitioners who wish to gain insight into other ways of understanding health, illness and disease.
 

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Introduction
1
The Sanctity of Life or the Sanctification of Life? A Critical
9
The Uses and Dangers
21
Mechanized Bodies or Embodied Persons? Alternative
35
The Media Representation
53
Narrative Types
67
The Effects of ClownDoctors on
83
Fragmentation and Unification
97
Jacques Ferrons Little
113
Learning from the Illness
135
How to use the Potential
149
The Lost Art of Dying
165
Hodlers Cycle of Paintings
183
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