Increasingly today there's a recognition that doctors treating major diseases need to think not only about their patients' medical problems, but also about the social and psychological aspects of their illness. Now The Experience of Illness series tackles this growing area of modern health care, and examines the psychosocial prespective of major diseases and disorders.
Each book in the series discusses a specific major health problem and makes extensive use of interviews with sufferers of the disease to show how their lives and relationships have been affected. By complementing modern medical knowlege in this way, The Experience of Illness series will prove of enormous value to health care students and practitioners, helping them to develop their counselling skills and improve the standard of care they can offer their patients.
