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Meaning-full disease : how personal experience and meanings cause and maintain physical illness / Brian Broom.
- Title
- Meaning-full disease : how personal experience and meanings cause and maintain physical illness / Brian Broom.
- Author
- Broom, Brian.
- Publication
- London : Karnac, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RC489.M53 B76 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 213 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This text looks at the nature of meaning, the relationship of meaning to the body, and the way in which meaning expresses itself in our health or lack of it. The author breaks through the constraints of traditional biomedicine and opens the door to truly understanding the personal meaning of illness and disease.
- Alternative Title
- Meaningfull disease
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-208) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The phenomena -- Colliding mind-sets -- Somatic metaphors -- Language-making and disease -- Meaning-full disease explorers -- Disease as communication -- Who 'sees' meaning-full disease? -- Meaning-full disease and the lebenswelt -- Meaning-full disease and the 'visible' -- Shifting awareness and different kinds of body -- The scheming body -- Experience as a 'fundamental' -- Meaning-full disease and spirit -- Bibliography -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9781855754638 (pbk.)
- 1855754630 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 84151747
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library