Making Sense Of: Health, Illness and Disease / / edited by Peter L. Twohig, Vera Kalitzkus.
Health, illness and disease are topics well-suited to interdisciplinary inquiry. This book brings together scholars from around the world who share an interest in and a commitment to bridging the traditional boundaries of inquiry. We hope that this book begins new conversations that will situate hea...
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| Superior document: | At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 11 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Vera KALITZKUS and Peter L. TWOHIG: Introduction
- Part 1 Theoretical and Historical Approaches
- Harold SCHWEIZER: The Question of Meaning in Suffering
- Gloria Nne ONYEOZIRI: The Scholarship of Blindness and the Blindness of Scholarship
- Jayanta BHATTACHARYA: The Body: Epistemological Encounters in Colonial India
- Betty BEDNARSKI: Putting Medicine in its Place: The Case of Physician-Writer Jacques Ferron
- Louise PENNER: Florence Nightingale's Sensational Narratives of Contagion and Contamination
- Part 2 Narratives and Metaphors
- Catherine GARRETT: Meaning and Spirituality in Stories of Chronic Illness
- Emma GOVAN: Entertaining Illness
- Sofie VANDAMME and Arko ODERWALD: Myths and Metaphors of Illness Reconsidered: Nancy versus Sontag
- Part 3 Healing Practices Today
- Peter L. TWOHIG, Wayne PUTNAM, Lois JACKSON, Fred BURGE and Jafina COX: "Shades of Grey": A Qualitative Inquiry of Evidence and Contemporary Family Practice
- Jarmila MILDORF: Narratives of Domestic Violence Cases: GPs Defining Their Professional Role
- Bernie WARREN: Treating Wellness: How Clown Doctors Help to Humanize Health Care and Promote Good Health
- Celia E. BANDMAN, Bernard M. BANDMAN, Patricia A. BARR, and Letha E. MILLS: The Medical Humanist: A Pilot Program in the Cancer Center Setting
- Part 4 Making Sense of Living with Illness
- Susan L. MILLS: Living Well with Chronic Illness
- Jane APPLETON: Ethical Issues in Narrative Research in Palliative Care
- Emma-Jane SAYERS and Miles LITTLE: Post-Cancer Distress in Some Cancer Survivors: Well-being, Self-determination Theory and a Downward Cycle
- Vera KALITZKUS: Life "In Limbo": Donor Families, Organ Recipients and their Experience in Germany.