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Subject(s)

• Medicine—Philosophy [Browse]
• Health—Philosophy [Browse]
• Diseases—Philosophy [Browse]

Related name

• Kalitzkus, Vera [Browse]
• Twohig, Peter [Browse]

Series

• At the interface/probing the boundaries v. 29. [More in this series]
• At the interface/Probing the boundaries ; v. 29

Summary note

• "Biomedicine is the dominant organizing framework of modern medicine but it is not the only lens through which health, illness and disease can be understood. This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars from around the world who seek to probe the boundaries of biomedicine. This book is the outcome of the third global conference on 'Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease,' held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in July 2004. The papers selected for this volume take a variety of theoretical positions but share an interest in the social study of health, illness and disease. They consider how biomedicine is a cultural system and is imbued with other meanings and that a full exploration of health, illness and disease requires a variety of perspectives, including those of social scientists, humanists and practicing clinicians.
• This volume will be of interest to students, researchers and health care providers who wish to gain insight into the many ways through which we can understand health, illness and disease." -- BOOK JACKET.

Notes

This book is the outcome of the third global conference on "Making sense of health, illness and disease" held in 2004.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Pt. 1. Humanist, social science and interdisciplinary perspectives on health, illness and disease
• musician, the diarist and the construction worker : interdisciplinary perspectives on health, illness and disease / Peter L. Twohig
• Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907) : the last self-portrait of the syphilitic artist / Tomasz Spiewak
• Pt. 2. epistemology of biomedicine
• anthropology of aetiology / James Davies
• social construction of disease : why homosexuality isn't like cancer / Matthew McGrattan
• Green fingers or pink Viagra? : female sexual dysfunction and medicalisation in contemporary medical discourse / Katherine Angel
• communication of diagnostic information by doctors to patients in the consultation / Peter J. Schulz
• Pt. 3. Biomedicine in a socio-cultural context
• Subaltern theories of health and illness : an ethnographic study of Mexican women with HIV disease / Betania Allen
• When the diagnosed talk : ethnographic narratives of mental illness / Bindhulakshmi
• Critical excess : sex, drugs, intervention / Aaron Goodfellow
• 'Normal gone bad' : health discourses, schools and the female body / Emma Rich, Hannele Harjunen and John Evans
• Pt. 4. Beyond biomedicine : ethics, experience, voice
• Midwifery, consumerism and the ethics of informed choice / Philippa Spoel
• Towards a concept of hope : a functional reconceptualization / Stephen Michael Neff
• Embodied practices and subjectivity in psychopathology / Ian Tucker
• Getting by : the lived experience of patients with cystic fibrosis and their carers of waiting for lung transplant / Kath MacDonald
• Speaking about the unspeakable : cervical screening in New Zealand / Judith Macdonald.

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ISBN

9042019999 (pbk.)

OCLC

70249524

RCP

H - S

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