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Between Sickness and Health - Christopher D. Ward

Between Sickness and Health

The Landscape of Illness and Wellness
Buch | Hardcover
150 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-59286-5 (ISBN)
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Beginning with an individual’s subjective experience of ill health, this text looks at how this feeling relates to the social construction of illness, and the idea of illness as an object of knowledge, a source of meaning, and a political issue. It then investigates what it means to return to a state of wellbeing.
Between Sickness and Health is about illness rather than disease, and recovery rather than cure. The book argues that illness is an experience, represented by the feeling that ‘I am not myself’. From the book’s phenomenological point of view, feelings of illness cannot be ‘unreal’ or ‘fake’, whatever their biological basis, nor need they be categorised as ‘physical’, ‘psychosomatic’ or ‘psychiatric’.

The book challenges the disease-centred ethos of medicine and medical education. It demonstrates that a clearer conception of illness, as distinct from disease, is therapeutic. The feeling that ‘I am once again myself’ can return, in some degree, whatever state the body is in. Resilience becomes more available when it is seen as a set of personal skills that can be developed, rather than as an inborn trait. Possibilities of wellness are enhanced by recognising that medical and other therapies can either support or impede recovery, as can human relationships and the socio-political environment.

The book’s many clinical examples are drawn from the author’s broad experience as a neurologist, rehabilitation physician and systemic family therapist. Between Sickness and Health will be useful for students, practitioners and academics, and also for anyone who has been or might one day be ill.

Christopher D. Ward is Emeritus Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is also a UKCP-accredited systemic psychotherapist. He edited Meanings of ME: Interpersonal and Social Dimensions of Chronic Fatigue, 2015.

Preface

A note to patients, clients and families

PART I: Illness

1 Introduction

2 Images

3 Knowledges

4 Feelings

5 Appearances

6 Meanings

PART II: Recovery

7 Possibilities

8 Obstructions

9 Resources

10 Abilities

11 A Doctor’s Note

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 6 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 385 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Medizin / Pharmazie Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie Rehabilitation
Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-138-59286-2 / 1138592862
ISBN-13 978-1-138-59286-5 / 9781138592865
Zustand Neuware
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