Making Sense of Illness / The Social Psychology of Health and Disease
Making Sense of Illness / The Social Psychology of Health and Disease
- 1st
- Sage Publications, 1994
- 232
This lucid introduction to the social psychology of health and illness addresses questions of how people make sense of illness in everyday life, either alone or with the help of others. Acknowledgements, Preface, Explaining Health and Illness: An Introduction, Illness and the Patient and Society, Ideas about Health and Staying Healthy, Recognizing Symptoms and Falling Ill, The Healing Relationship: Doctors and Patients and Nurses, Illness and Gender: Studying Women's Health, Chronic Illness and Social Support, Promoting Health and Preventing Disease, References, Author and Subject Index.
803989091
This lucid introduction to the social psychology of health and illness addresses questions of how people make sense of illness in everyday life, either alone or with the help of others. Acknowledgements, Preface, Explaining Health and Illness: An Introduction, Illness and the Patient and Society, Ideas about Health and Staying Healthy, Recognizing Symptoms and Falling Ill, The Healing Relationship: Doctors and Patients and Nurses, Illness and Gender: Studying Women's Health, Chronic Illness and Social Support, Promoting Health and Preventing Disease, References, Author and Subject Index.
803989091