146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
146 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1971, The Process of Becoming Ill is concerned with how people become ill: not with how people contract diseases but how people come to occupy the social status of ‘sick person’. It is concerned with an analysis of illness behaviour in terms of what it means to be an ill person or a member of the family of an ill person by studying twenty-four families in South Wales. The... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Differential access to the status sick 2. Decision-making in illness situations 3. The setting in which decisions are made 4. When decisions have been made 5. When ‘illness’ is not illness 6. Conclusions Appendix References Index
Biography
David Robinson
