Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society and Disease

Klappentext A fascinating investigation into the social and clinical factors that determine what constitutes a "Legitimate" illness in the 20th century. By examining six case studies of diseases that have emerged within the past 50 years, Dr. Robert Aronowitz looks at how doctors think about illness; how illnesses are recognized, named, classified; and what they mean in an individual and social context. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert A. Aronowitz
• Assisted by: Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9780521552349
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55234-9
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General