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Can I read Between Sickness and Health : the Landscape of Illness and Wellness on EtoBox?
Between Sickness and Health : the Landscape of Illness and Wellness by Christopher D. Ward is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Between Sickness and Health : the Landscape of Illness and Wellness about?
__Between Sickness and Health__ is about illness rather than disease, and recovery rather than cure. The book argues that illness is an experience, represented by the feeling that ‘I am not myself’. From the book’s phenomenological point of view, feelings of illness cannot be ‘unreal’ or ‘fake’, whatever their biological basis, nor need they be categorised as ‘physical’, ‘psychosomatic’ or ‘psychiatric’. The book challenges the disease-centred ethos of medicine and medical education. It demonstrates that a clearer conception of illness, as distinct from disease, is therapeutic. The feeling that ‘I am once again myself’ can return, in some degree, whatever state the body is in. Resilience becomes more available when it is seen as a set of personal skills that can be developed, rather than as an inborn trait. Possibilities of wellness are enhanced by recognising that medical and other therapies can either support or impede recovery, as can human relationships and the socio-political environment. The book’s many clinical examples are drawn from the author’s broad experience as a neurologist, rehabilitation physician and systemic family therapist. __Between Sickness and Health__ will b
Who reads Between Sickness and Health : the Landscape of Illness and Wellness?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christopher D. Ward
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor et Francis Group
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781138592865
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Psychology, Others