Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History (Health and Medicine in American Society)
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (859 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813517575 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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"In some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming, and responding to it, " writes Charles E. Disease is also framed by public policy, as the cases of industrial disability and of forensic psychiatry demonstrate. Rosenberg in his introduction to this stimulating set of essays. Aronowitz, Gerald Markowitz, David Rosner, Janet A. Patient, doctor, family, and social institutions—including employers, government, and insurance companies—all find ways to frame the biological event in terms that make sense to them and serve their own ends.Many diseases discussed here—endstage renal disease, rheumatic fever, parasitic infectious diseases, coronary thrombosis—came to be defined, redefined, and renamed over the course of several centuries. Ultimately, the existence and conquest of disease serves to frame a society's sense of its own "healthiness" and to give direction to social reforms. The contributors include Steven J. Eyler, and Elizabeth Fee. Peitzman, Peter C. Disease is both a biological event and a social phenomenon. Tighe, Barbara Bates, Ellen Dwyer, John M. Medical institutions, as managers of people with disease, come t
Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. . Charles E. He is the author of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System; and No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought. Rosenberg is the Ernest E
Five Stars Amazon Customer Very interesting. "What is Disease?" according to Richard Valasek. Charles Rosenberg states in his introduction to this collection of essays "In some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming, and responding to it." What follows are 1What is Disease? Richard Valasek Charles Rosenberg states in his introduction to this collection of essays "In some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming, and responding to it." What follows are 14 separate accounts of this process of negotiation in naming and responding to disease and the ever-shifting boundaries of the notion of disease.This book should be required reading for anyone involved in the healing arts be they physicians, nurse, medical social worker, shaman or lay healer. It should also be read by anyone who has to deal with these people on a regular basis.Reading these essays makes it very clear that th. separate accounts of this process of negotiation in naming and responding to disease and the ever-shifting boundaries of the notion of disease.This book should be required reading for anyone involved in the healing arts be they physicians, nurse, medical social worker, shaman or lay healer. It should also be read by anyone who has to deal with these people on a regular basis.Reading these essays makes it very clear that th
About the Author Charles E. Monrad Professor in the Social Sciences and a professor of the history of science at Harvard University. Rosenberg is the Ernest E. He is the author of The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866; The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System; and No Other Gods: On Science and American Social Thought.