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Author:   Alan Radley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780415067690

ISBN 10:   0415067693
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   25 March 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Alan Radley 1. Constructing discourse about health and their social determinants Janine Pierret 2. Social Class and the contextualization of illness experience Alan Blair 3. Attitude of mind as a means of resisting illness Kristian Pollock 4. Religion and Illness Rory Williams 5. Chronic illness and the pursuit of virtue in everyday life Gareth Williams 6. The role of metaphor in adjustment to chronic illness Alan Ridley 7. Why do the victims blame themselves? Mildred Blaxter 8. Towards the reconstruction of an organic mental disorder Tom Kitwood 9. The world of illness of the closed head injured Paul Bellaby 10. On knowing the patient: experiences of nurses undertaking care Martha MacLeod 11. On chronic illness: immigrant women in Canada's workforce Joan Anderson

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`provides an excellent springboard from which to develop both theoretical and practical issues anew. It will be useful not only for sociologists of health and illness but also for those interested in research methods' - Helen Bromley, Database for Health and Place

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