Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease / / edited by Peter L. Twohig, Vera Kalitzkus.
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 i...
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| Superior document: | At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 21 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| 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 Philosophical Approaches to Health, Illness and Disease
- Michael WEINGARTEN: The Sanctity of Life or the Sanctification of Life? A Critical Reassessment of Jewish Medical Ethics
- Richard A. INGRAM: Beyond the Body Beautiful: The Uses and Dangers of Nietzsche's Rethinking of Health and Illness
- James A. MARCUM: Mechanized Bodies or Embodied Persons? Alternative Models of the Patient's Body in Modern Medicine
- Part 2 Representations of Health, Illness, and Disease: Personal, Public and Institutional Perspectives
- Nicola GOC: Mothers and Madness: The Media Representation of Postpartum Psychosis
- Brett SMITH and Andrew C. SPARKES: Becoming Disabled through Sport: Narrative Types, Metaphors and the Reconstruction of Selves
- Bernie WARREN: Bring Me Sunshine: The Effects of Clown-Doctors on the Mood and Attitudes of Healthcare Staff
- Part 3 Reframing Clinical Encounters: Narrative, Literature and Video
- Jarmila MILDORF: Narrativising the Body: Fragmentation and Unification in Jed Mercurio's Bodies
- Betty BEDNARSKI: The Possibilities of Story: Jacques Ferron's "Little William" and the Teaching of Obstetrics
- Karen CHRISTOPHER and Gregory MAKOUL: Patient Narrative Videos: Learning from the Illness Experience
- Ottomar BAHRS, Susanne HEIM, Vera KALITZKUS, Peter F. MATTHIESSEN, Hermann MÜLLER: Salutogenesis in General Practice: How to use the Potential of Doctor-Patient Communication to Promote Health
- Part 4 Making Sense of the Art of Dying
- Jon E. CUTLER: Ars Moriendi: The Lost Art of Dying
- Harold SCHWEIZER: The Art of Dying: Hodler's Cycle of Paintings of Valentine Godé-Darel.