The Meaning of Illness: A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives

Description: The Meaning of Illness by S. Kay Toombs A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patients and the physicians understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This work provides a phenomenological account of the experience of illness and the manner in which meaning is constituted by the patient and the physician. Rather than representing a shared reality between doctor and patient, illness represents two quite distinct realities - the meaning of one being significantly and qualitatively different from the meaning of the other. Drawing upon insights derived from psychological phenomenology, the author explores this difference and provides a detailed account of the way in which illness and body are apprehended differently by doctor and patient. The author considers the implications for medical practice, particularly in terms of achieving successful communication between doctor and patient, providing a comprehensive account of illness, alleviating suffering, and devising maximally effective therapeutic interventions. Consideration is given to ways of developing a shared world of meaning through the use of clinical narrative, empathic understanding and an explicit focus on the lifeworld interpretation of illness. Notes Springer Book Archives Table of Contents One: The Separate Worlds of Physician and Patient.- 1. Own World.- 2. Common World.- 3. Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient.- 4. Implications for Medical Practice.- Two: Illness.- 1. Levels of Constitution of Meaning.- 2. The Patients Apprehension of Illness.- 3. The Physicians Apprehension of the Patients Illness.- 4. Implications for Medical Practice.- Three: The Body.- 1. The Lived Body.- 2. Body as Object.- 3. Lived Body in Illness.- 4. Body as Object in Illness.- 5. The Body-as-Scientific-Object.- 6. Implications for Medical Practice.- Four: The Healing Relationship.- 1. Illness-as-Lived.- 2. Empathic Understanding.- 3. Clinical Narrative.- 4. The Healing Relationship.- Notes. Promotional Springer Book Archives Long Description A PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH My interest in exploring the nature of the patients and the physicians understanding of illness has grown out of my own experience as a multiple sclerosis patient. In discussing my illness with physicians, it has often seemed to me that we have been somehow talking at cross purposes, discussing different things, never quite reaching one another. This inability to communicate does not, for the most part, result from inatten Details ISBN0792324439 Author S. Kay Toombs Publisher Springer Series Philosophy and Medicine Language English ISBN-10 0792324439 ISBN-13 9780792324430 Media Book Format Paperback Series Number 42 Year 1993 Publication Date 1993-08-31 Subtitle A Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient Place of Publication Dordrecht Edition 1st Short Title MEANING OF ILLNESS SOFTCOVER R Birth 1943 Affiliation Baylor University Pages 165 Imprint Springer Country of Publication Netherlands Illustrations XVI, 165 p. DOI 10.1023/b134193 Edition Description Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992 Alternative 9780792315704 DEWEY 610.1 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:96225026;

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