Making Sense of Illness - Science, Society and Disease

Zusammenfassung In this 1998 book Robert Aronowitz offers historical essays about how diseases change their meaning. By juxtaposing the history of different diseases! the author shows how values and interests have determined research programs! public health activities! clinical decisions! and the patient's experience of illness. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The rise and fall of the psychosomatic hypothesis in ulcerative colitis; 3. From myalgic encephalitis to yuppie flu: a history of chronic fatigue syndrome; 4. Lyme disease: the social construction of a new disease and its social consequences; 5. From the patient's angina pectoris to the cardiologist's coronary heart disease; 6. The social construction of coronary heart disease risk factors; 7. The rise and fall of the type A hypothesis; 8. Conclusion.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Robert A. Aronowitz, Robert A. (University of Medicine and D Aronowitz
• Mitarbeit: Colin Jones (Herausgeber), Charles Rosenberg (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.05.1999
• EAN: 9780521558259
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55825-9
• Seiten: 286
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; MEDICAL / Diseases, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Diseases & disorders, Diseases and disorders