The illness narratives : suffering, healing, and the human condition / Arthur Kleinman.
By: Kleinman, Arthur.
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TextPublisher: New York : Basic Books, 1988.Description: xviii, 284 p. 25 cm.ISBN: 0465032028; 9780465032044; 0465032044.Subject(s): Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects | Chronic Disease -- psychology | Chronic Disease -- therapyDDC classification: 616.044 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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The meaning of symptoms and disorders -- The personal and social meanings of illness -- The vulnerability of pain and the pain of vulnerability -- The pain of living -- Chronic pain: the frustrations of desire -- Neurasthenia: weakness and exhaustion in the United States and China -- Conflicting explanatory models in the care of the chronically ill -- Aspiration and victory: coping with chronic illness -- Illness unto death -- The stigma and shame of illness -- The social context of chronicity -- The creation of disease: factitious illness -- Hypochondriasis: the ironic disease -- The healers: varieties of experience in doctoring -- A method for the care of the chronically ill -- The challenge of a meaning-centered model for medical education and practice.
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