The Experience of Illness
1st Edition
Published on 24. May 2022
302 pages
978-1-000-57760-0 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1984, this book focuses, firstly, on how patients interpret and act in response to symptoms of illness; secondly on how social and psychological factors influence the treatment process; and thirdly, on certain kinds of illness where the psychosocial perspective is of particular importance to the providers of health care - for example, chronic or particularly disabling illnesses. It demonstrates how essential it is to bring an interdisciplinary perspective from the social and behavioural sciences to an understanding and interpretation of behaviour in relation to illness. It will be of central concern to all health professionals in training and in practice and to social scientists interested in health care.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-000-57760-0 (9781000577600)
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Ray Fitzpatrick | John Hinton | Stanton Newman
The Experience of Illness
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Ray Fitzpatrick | John Hinton | Stanton Newman
The Experience of Illness
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05/2022
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Persons
Ray Fitzpatrick is Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford. He continues with NIHR-funded research into the quality and outcomes of health and care services especially for people with long term conditions. Graham Scambler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at UCL, UK.
Content
1. Introduction Part 1: Illness and Help Seeking 2. Lay Concepts of Illness 3. The Illness Iceberg and Aspects of Consulting Behaviour 4. Social Class, Ethnicity, and Illness Part 2: The Experience of Treatment 5. Communicating with Patients 6. Compliance 7. Anxiety, Hospitalization and Surgery 8. Satisfaction with Health Care 9. The Psychological Consequences of Cerebrovascular Accident and Head Injury 10. Perceiving and Coping With Stigmatizing Illness 11. Coping with Terminal Illness.
