The Patient
Global Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Published on 1. February 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-84888-010-8 (ISBN)
Description
While pain and suffering are universal, the experience,understanding, and expression of them are not.What it means to be a patient is unique to each individual: for example, what one person experiences as bothersome back pain, another might experience as debilitating. But patienthood also depends on one's culture, both broadly and more narrowly defined (e.g., one's ethnicity on the one hand and one's immediate social circle on the other). Illness is a phenomenon constructed - sometimes passively, sometimes actively - according to the core values of the culture(s) of which the patient is a part. The Patient: Global Interdisciplinary Perspectives seeks to raise critical consciousness of issues confronting patients and contribute to a richer understanding of how one's culture impacts the lived experience of disease. The chapters in this collection provide a snapshot of situations as they exist in a particular cultural and historical moment. Their long-term value lies in providing important historical documentation of where we are as an international community in the first decade of the 21st century.
Hopefully, we can use such historical reminders as yardsticks to measure our progress in healthcare accessibility and funding as we reflect on the similarities and differences that exist between people across the globe, and among the particular communities in which they live.
Hopefully, we can use such historical reminders as yardsticks to measure our progress in healthcare accessibility and funding as we reflect on the similarities and differences that exist between people across the globe, and among the particular communities in which they live.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Inter/Connexions
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84888-010-8 (9781848880108)
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Kimberly R. Myers is an Associate Professor of Humanities at the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine and Associate Professor of English at Penn State University. Her recent books include Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics (Purdue University Press, 2007) and, co-edited with Harold Schweizer, The Patient (Bucknell University Press, 2009).
Content
Introduction Global Perspectives on Patients: Observations and Implications Kimberly R. Myers Section One: Communication I'm not sick, I just have painA": Silence and (Under)Communication of Illness in a Nicaraguan Village Aleksandra Bartoszko Trinidadian Patients and Their Cuban Doctors: More than Meets the Eye and Ear Stella Williams, Beverly-Anne Carter, Amina Ibrahim-Ali, Glenda Leung Ethical Spaces: Ethical Dilemmas in the Clinical Encounter Between Patients and Their Biomedical and Complementary Healthcare Providers Ondine Spitzer Section Two: Stigma Hallucinations and the Patient Lorna Lees-Grossmann The Patient Experience with Psychosis as Seen from the Helper's Point of View Geir Fagerjord Lorem His body was a map of diseaseA": Remapping the Body of the Person with AIDS in Robert Ferro's Second Son Gian Pietro Leonardi Section: Three Media Artistic Transformations of the Patient: Hospitalisation and Personal Agency in Wit and The Cyclist Judith Musser Screened Cancer: Cinematic Realism and Creative Metaphorisation in Les Invasions Barbares Esther-Lee Marcus and Amir Cohen-Shalev Dying Professors in Film and Television: How the Media Make Illness a Moral Issue Lisa Roney Section Four: Suffering Frances Burney and the Empowering Patient Perspective Maria Vaccarella Entering the Wound Michael Miles The Liminal Identity of Physician-Spouse-Caregiver in Severe Chronic Illness George R. Simms Coda The Patience of the Patient Harold Schweizer