People With Multiple Sclerosis - Condition, Challenges and Care

Informationen zum Autor Paul Bull was a Geography Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Progressive multiple sclerosis forced him into retirement in 1999. He has since been a volunteer for a number of charities, most recently as Chairman of the Colchester branch of the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Klappentext Multiple sclerosis is an incurable neurological disease of unknown cause with a fearful reputation for generating disability, unemployment, poverty and early death. This book critically surveys the current state of multiple sclerosis research, demonstrating the shortfall of current research undertaken on the lives of people with multiple sclerosis. Zusammenfassung Multiple sclerosis is an incurable neurological disease of unknown cause with a fearful reputation for generating disability! unemployment! poverty and early death. This book critically surveys the current state of multiple sclerosis research! demonstrating the shortfall of current research undertaken on the lives of people with multiple sclerosis. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Multiple Sclerosis: A Brief Overview of the Illness 3. Research on People with MS: Definitions, Data Sources and Methodologies 4. What Type of Person Suffers from MS? 5. How Many People Have MS: A Case Study of the UK? 6. The Impact of MS 7. The Care of People with MS 8. Conclusion

List of contents

1. Introduction
2. Multiple Sclerosis: A Brief Overview of the Illness
3. Research on People with MS: Definitions, Data Sources and Methodologies
4. What Type of Person Suffers from MS?
5. How Many People Have MS: A Case Study of the UK?
6. The Impact of MS
7. The Care of People with MS
8. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Paul J Bull, Paul J. Bull
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781137457059
• ISBN: 978-1-137-45705-9
• No. of pages: 319
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Sociology, Social Inequality, Statistics, Poverty, Social Sciences, Social & ethical issues, Development Aid, Sociology, general, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Social Structure, Social research & statistics, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Development Studies, Sociological Methods, Social medicine, Medical Sociology