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The Meaning of Illness. A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient.
S.Kay Toombs
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Paperback. Provides an account of the experience of illness and the manner in which meaning is constituted by the patient and the physician. This book provides an account of the way in which illness and body are apprehended differently by doctor and patient. It considers the implications for medical practice. Series: Philosophy and Medicine. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 12. Weight in Grams: 276.
A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patient's and the physician's understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient. In discussing my illness with physicians, it has often seemed to me that we have been somehow talking at cross purposes, discussing different things, never quite reaching one another. This inability to communicate does not, for the most part, result from inatten tiveness or insensitivity but from a fundamental disagreement about the nature of illness. Rather than representing a shared reality between us, illness represents two quite distinct realities - ... Read more
A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patient's and the physician's understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient. In discussing my illness with physicians, it has often seemed to me that we have been somehow talking at cross purposes, discussing different things, never quite reaching one another. This inability to communicate does not, for the most part, result from inatten tiveness or insensitivity but from a fundamental disagreement about the nature of illness. Rather than representing a shared reality between us, illness represents two quite distinct realities - ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
165
Condition
New
Series
Philosophy and Medicine
Number of Pages
165
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792324430
SKU
V9780792324430
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