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Medical Humanities Companion Volume One: Symptom
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'For those previously unfamiliar with the fields of Medical Humanities and Philosophy some chapters will make easier reading than others. However, all practitioners involved in clinical assessment and the evaluation of symptom presentation would benefit from its insights.'
- John Richard Ashcroft, Counties Manukau District Health Board, New Zealand, Mental Health and Substance Use
MEDICAL HUMANITIES COMPANION VOLUME TWO: Diagnosis ia also available. The phrase ‘medical humanities’ has a currency that is wider than any agreement as to what it means, though those engaged in the field usually know what they are attempting. This Volume examines the idea of ‘symptom’ as a route to understanding the structure of clinical practice. Actual symptoms are always experienced by real, actual individuals – however much those experiences are mediated by language, culture, expectation and the conventions of the clinical consultation. And this in turn is important because it reminds us that health, illness, well-being, suffering are first and foremost aspects of experience. This book asks questions – and offers answers – about the meaning of actual symptoms and of the concept of ‘symptom’ as a prelude to a cumulative interdisciplinary understanding of illness as a source of human need, and clinical medicine as a human response to it.
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Summary of contents
- The patients’ stories
- Music, interrupted: an illness observed from within
- The body as lived experience in health and disease
- Issues of privacy and intimacy at the beginnings of illness
- Vocabulary of health and illness: the possibilities and limitations of language
- Seeing ourselves: interpreting the visual signs of illness
- The response to suffering
- Another day with a headache: Semiotics of everyday symptoms
- Giving meaning to symptoms
Details
Pages: 146
Cover: Paperback
Editor(s)
Martyn Evans, Rolf Ahlzén, Iona Heath and Jane MacNaughton
Contributor(s)
Carl Edvard Rudebeck, John Saunders, Jill Gordon, Anne MacLeod, Raimo Puustinen, Rolf Ahlzén