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First Published in 1988. The Meaning of Illness offers new ways of understanding the nature of disease and explores the idea that health and illness have a special interdependence. Experiences which illness brings to our attention -limitation, vulnerability and dependence - are explored here as inescapable and valuable dimensions to human existence which we ignore at our peril. The contributors... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, MARK KIDEL; Chapter 2 Illness and meaning, MARK KIDEL; Chapter 3 Items and motion, PETER TATHAM; Chapter 4 Heart abuse, ELIZABETH WILDE McCORMICK; Chapter 5 The doctor versus King Canute: from Georg Groddeck to family therapy, SEBASTIAN KRAEMER; Chapter 6 Health and illness in Chinese society, ROGER HILL; Chapter 7 The meaning of illness: the homoeopathic approach, MISHA NORLAND; Chapter 8 The patient as healer: how we can take part in our own recovery, PAT KITTO; Chapter 9 ‘No, I can’t do that, my consultant wouldn’t like it’ ..., JO SPENCE; Chapter 10 No answer to Job: reflections on the limitations of meaning in illness, ADOLF GUGGENBÜHL-CRAIG, NIEL MICKLEM; Chapter 11 Morbistic rituals, ALFRED J. ZIEGLER;
Biography
Auge, Marc; Herzlich, Claudine
