Medical Humanism, Chronic Illness, and the Body in Pain - An Ecology of Wholeness

With an increasing number of individuals living with chronic illness and pain, integrative approaches offering self-management support are needed. This book proposes a multi-layered framework integrating the body/self/environment that cultivates wholeness as an authentic embodied presence in alignment with a reflexive self.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Wholeness Project

Chapter 2: A Social Constructionist Epistemology

Chapter 3: The Reflexive Self

Chapter 4: The Embodied Self

Chapter 5: The Discursive Body

Chapter 6: The Material Body

Chapter 7: Time, Change, and Illness Intrusion

Chapter 8: Traditional Health Systems

Chapter 9: Food, Nature, and Body/Self-Integration

References

About the Author

About the author

Vinita Agarwal is associate professor of communication at Salisbury University.

Product details

• Authors: Vinita Agarwal
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781498596459
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9645-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Lexington Studies in Health Co; Lexington Studies in Health Communication; Bloomsbury Studies in Health Communication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Communication Studies, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects