Being Ill

On Sickness, Care and Abandonment

Professor Neil Vickers, Prof Derek Bolton (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2024
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
9781789149111 (ISBN)

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An original perspective on the experience of major illness.

A serious illness often changes the way others see us. Few, if any, relationships remain the same. The sick become more dependent on partners and family members, while more distant contacts become strained. The carers of the ill are also often isolated. This book focuses on our sense of self when ill and how infirmity plays out in our relationships with others.
Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton offer an original perspective, drawing on neuroscience, psychology and psychoanalysis, as well as memoirs of the ill or their carers, to reveal how a sense of connectedness and group belonging can not only improve care, but make societies more resilient to illness. This is an essential book on the experience of major illness.

Neil Vickers (Author) Neil Vickers is Professor of English Literature and the Health Humanities at King’s College London. He has had a career in epidemiology and has published widely on literature and medical subjects. He is the author of Coleridge and the Doctors (2004). Derek Bolton (Author) Derek Bolton is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. He is the author of several books including What Is Mental Disorder? (2008) and The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease (with Grant Gillett, 2019).

Introduction
1: Emergent Illness
2: Care
3: The Pariah Syndrome
4: Biopsychosocial Beings
Conclusion
References
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.09.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Altenpflege
ISBN-13	9781789149111 / 9781789149111
Zustand	Neuware