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Health and disease : a reader / Basiro Davey, Alastair Gray and Clive Seale, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Health and disease seriesPublication details: Buckingham : Open University Press, 2002.Edition: 3rd edDescription: 480pISBN:
  • 9780335209682 (hbk.) :
  • 9780335209675 (pbk.) :
  • 033520967X(pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1DAV
LOC classification:
  • RA436 .H43 2002
Contents:
PART1. Cultural aspects of health, illness and healing Introduction-- 1 Mirage of health--2. Hippocrates --3. Feed a cold, starve a fever --4. What is health?--5. Illness as metaphor--6. The problem of the whole-person in holistic medicine --7. Protecting a vulnerable margin: towards an analysis of how the mouth came to be separated from the body --8. Hysteria and demonic possession --9. Cross-cultural psychiatry --10.Media and mental illness --11.Public eyes and private genes --PART 2. Experiencing health, disease and health care - Introduction --12. Two accounts of mental distress --13. Being there --14. The insanity of place --15. The social impact of childhood asthma --16. Beyond the disorder: one parent\'s reflection on genetic counselling--17. Coping with migraine --18. Using alternative therapies: marginal medicine and central concerns--19. The social preservation of mind: the Alzheimer\'s disease experience --20. Some bloody do-gooding cow\' p.--21. Pride against prejudice: \'lives not worth living\' --22. The stigma of infertility--23. Identity dilemmas of chronically ill men --24. Costs of treating AIDS in Malawi and America--PART 3. Influences on health and disease Introduction--25. Health: 1844 --26. The health and wealth of nations --27. Agriculture\'s two-edged sword --28. Climate and health --29. Deaths under 50 --30. Prevention is better... --31. Malingering --32. Causes of declining life expectancy in Russia --33. The psychosocial causes of illness --34. Entitlement and deprivation --35. Why must I be a teenager at all? --36. Good gene, bad gene --37. Biodemographic trajectories of longevity --38. A new division of the life course --PART 4.The role of medicine -Introduction--39. The medical contribution --40. The importance of social intervention in Britain\'s mortality decline c. 1850-1914: a re-interpretation of the role of public health --41. Effectiveness and efficiency --42. Medicine matters after all 43. Ethical dilemmas in evaluation --44. The global eradication of smallpox --45. The epidemics of modern medicine --46. The mode of state intervention in the health sector --PART 5. The social context of health care - Introduction --47. Health inequalities and the health of the poor: what do we know? what can we do? --48. Ageism in cardiology --49. Should smokers be offered coronary bypass surgery? --50. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn\'t --51. Pubic participation in the evaluation of health care --52. Health technology and knowledge --53. Improving NHS performance: human behaviour and health policy --54. Health sector reform: lessons from China --55. The evolution of the health-care systems in the United States and the United Kingdom: similarities and differences --56. The role of the hospital in a changing environment --PART 6. Health work - Introduction --57. The carer at home --58. \'We didn\'t want him to die on his own\'--nurses\' accounts of nursing dying patients --59. Professionalism and the conundrum of care --60. Truth, trust and paternalism --61. Doctor knows best --62. Normal rubbish: deviant patients in casualty departments --63. Food-work: maids in a hospital kitchen --64. Professions allied to medicine: continuity and change in a complex workforce --65. The village health worker: lackey or liberator? --PART 7. Prospects and speculations - Introduction --66. The new globalization, food and health --67. Global AIDS epidemic: time to turn the tide --68. Doctor in the house: the Internet as a source of lay health knowledge and the challenge to expertise --69. Ageing and medicine --70. Brave new world II --71. Exits--72. The shadow of genetic injustice --73. The evolution of Utopia --74. Spawn of Satan? --75. The flesh --76. Enough already! The pervasiveness of warnings in everyday life.
Summary: Health and disease have become major subjects for investigation, comment and debate. This text is a collection of articles which reflect the varied and sometimes controversial perspectives within these debates.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 362.1DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 119886

Previous ed.: 1995.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART1. Cultural aspects of health, illness and healing Introduction-- 1 Mirage of health--2. Hippocrates --3. Feed a cold, starve a fever --4. What is health?--5. Illness as metaphor--6. The problem of the whole-person in holistic medicine --7. Protecting a vulnerable margin: towards an analysis of how the mouth came to be separated from the body --8. Hysteria and demonic possession --9. Cross-cultural psychiatry --10.Media and mental illness --11.Public eyes and private genes --PART 2. Experiencing health, disease and health care - Introduction --12. Two accounts of mental distress --13. Being there --14. The insanity of place --15. The social impact of childhood asthma --16. Beyond the disorder: one parent\'s reflection on genetic counselling--17. Coping with migraine --18. Using alternative therapies: marginal medicine and central concerns--19. The social preservation of mind: the Alzheimer\'s disease experience --20. Some bloody do-gooding cow\' p.--21. Pride against prejudice: \'lives not worth living\' --22. The stigma of infertility--23. Identity dilemmas of chronically ill men --24. Costs of treating AIDS in Malawi and America--PART 3. Influences on health and disease Introduction--25. Health: 1844 --26. The health and wealth of nations --27. Agriculture\'s two-edged sword --28. Climate and health --29. Deaths under 50 --30. Prevention is better... --31. Malingering --32. Causes of declining life expectancy in Russia --33. The psychosocial causes of illness --34. Entitlement and deprivation --35. Why must I be a teenager at all? --36. Good gene, bad gene --37. Biodemographic trajectories of longevity --38. A new division of the life course --PART 4.The role of medicine -Introduction--39. The medical contribution --40. The importance of social intervention in Britain\'s mortality decline c. 1850-1914: a re-interpretation of the role of public health --41. Effectiveness and efficiency --42. Medicine matters after all 43. Ethical dilemmas in evaluation --44. The global eradication of smallpox --45. The epidemics of modern medicine --46. The mode of state intervention in the health sector --PART 5. The social context of health care - Introduction --47. Health inequalities and the health of the poor: what do we know? what can we do? --48. Ageism in cardiology --49. Should smokers be offered coronary bypass surgery? --50. Evidence based medicine: what it is and what it isn\'t --51. Pubic participation in the evaluation of health care --52. Health technology and knowledge --53. Improving NHS performance: human behaviour and health policy --54. Health sector reform: lessons from China --55. The evolution of the health-care systems in the United States and the United Kingdom: similarities and differences --56. The role of the hospital in a changing environment --PART 6. Health work - Introduction --57. The carer at home --58. \'We didn\'t want him to die on his own\'--nurses\' accounts of nursing dying patients --59. Professionalism and the conundrum of care --60. Truth, trust and paternalism --61. Doctor knows best --62. Normal rubbish: deviant patients in casualty departments --63. Food-work: maids in a hospital kitchen --64. Professions allied to medicine: continuity and change in a complex workforce --65. The village health worker: lackey or liberator? --PART 7. Prospects and speculations - Introduction --66. The new globalization, food and health --67. Global AIDS epidemic: time to turn the tide --68. Doctor in the house: the Internet as a source of lay health knowledge and the challenge to expertise --69. Ageing and medicine --70. Brave new world II --71. Exits--72. The shadow of genetic injustice --73. The evolution of Utopia --74. Spawn of Satan? --75. The flesh --76. Enough already! The pervasiveness of warnings in everyday life.

Health and disease have become major subjects for investigation, comment and debate. This text is a collection of articles which reflect the varied and sometimes controversial perspectives within these debates.

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