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A Harvard psychiatrist and anthropologist argues that interpreting the illness experience is an art tragically neglected by modern medical training, and presents a compelling case for bridging the gap between patient and doctor. Based on twenty years of clinical experience studying and... read more
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When I use the word illness in this book, I shall mean something fundamentally different from what I mean when I write disease.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Meaning of Symptoms and Disorders
2. The Personal and Social Meanings of Illness
3. The Vulnerability of Pain and the Pain of Vulnerability
4. The Pain of Living
5. Chronic Pain: The Frustrations of Desire
6. Neurasthenia: Weakness and Exhaustion in the United States and China
7. Conflicting Explanatory Models in the Care of the Chronically Ill
8. Aspiration and Victory: Coping with Chronic Illness
9. Illness unto Death
10. The Stigma and Shame of Illness
11. The Social Context of Chronicity
12. The Creation of Disease: Factitious Illness
13. Hypochondriasis: The Ironic Disease
14. The Healers: Varieties of Experience in Doctoring
15. A Method for the Care of the Chronically Ill
16. The Challenge of a Meaning-centered Model for Medical Education and Practice
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Index
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- Arthur Kleinman (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1989
ISBN: 0465032044
Page Count: 284
Publisher: Basic Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1989
ISBN: 0465032044
Page Count: 284
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- Dewey: 616.0019
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