Robert A. Aronowitz

Making Sense of Illness

Science, Society and Disease
Herausgeber: Rosenberg, Charles; Jones, Colin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Historical essays about how diseases change their meaning.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780521558259
• ISBN-10: 0521558255
• Artikelnr.: 21883051

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The rise and fall of the psychosomatic hypothesis in ulcerative colitis
3. From myalgic encephalitis to yuppie flu: a history of chronic fatigue syndrome
4. Lyme disease: the social construction of a new disease and its social consequences
5. From the patient's angina pectoris to the cardiologist's coronary heart disease
6. The social construction of coronary heart disease risk factors
7. The rise and fall of the type A hypothesis
8. Conclusion.