Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society and Disease
Aronowitz, Robert A. 19990601 Cambridge University Press, 286p.
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■Aronowitz, Robert A. 19990601 Making Sense of Illness: Science, Society and Disease, Cambridge University Press, 286p. ISBN-10:0521558255 ISBN-13:978-0521558259 $30.99 [amazon]/[kinokuniya] ※ ms
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内容説明
This book offers historical essays about how diseases change their meaning. Each of the diseases or etiologic hypotheses in this book has had a controversial and contested history: psychosomatic views of ulcerative colitis, twentieth-century chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease, angina pectoris, risk factors for coronary heart disease, and the type A hypothesis. At the core of these controversies are disagreements among investigators, clinicians, and patients over the best way to deal with what individuals bring to disease. By juxtaposing the history of the different diseases, the author shows how values and interests have determined research programs, public health activities, clinical decisions, and the patient's experience of illness. The approach is novel in its interweaving of historical research and the clinical experiences of the author. It should appeal to an audience of physicians, policy makers, social scientists and the general reader interested in broad intellectual currents in modern medicine.
Book Description
Making Sense of Illness is a fascinating investigation into the social and clinical factors that determine what constitutes a "legitimate" illness in the twentieth century. By examining six case studies of diseases that have emerged within the past fifty years--from what we now consider to be "straightforward" diseases such as coronary heart disease, to the currently widely-debated Chronic Fatigue Syndrome--Aronowitz examines the historical and cultural factors that influence how doctors think about illness; how illnesses are recognized, named, classified, and finally, what they "mean" in an individual and social context. The choices that are available to the investigators, clinicians, patients and the processes by which change occurs are factors that all play a great role in "legitimizing" an illness, and these are the roles that are seldom examined. By juxtaposing the histories of each disease, Aronowitz shows how cultural and historical precedents have determined research programs, public health activities, clinical decisions, and even the patient's experience of illness. This is a must-read for anyone interested in public health and the history of medicine in the United States.
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Preface
Introduction
1. From Myalgic Encephalitis to Yuppie Flu: A History of Chronic Fatigue Syndromes
2. The Rise and Fall of the Psychosomatic Hypothesis in Ulcerative Colitis
3. Lyme Disease: The Social Construction of a New Disease and Its Social Consequences
4. From the Patient's Angina Pectoris to the Cardiologist's Coronary Heart Disease
5. The Social Construction of Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors
6. The Rise and Fall of the Type A Hypothesis
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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