- 142 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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The Process of Becoming Ill
About this book
First published in 1971, The Process of Becoming Ill is concerned with how people become ill: not with how people contract diseases but how people come to occupy the social status of 'sick person'. It is concerned with an analysis of illness behaviour in terms of what it means to be an ill person or a member of the family of an ill person by studying twenty-four families in South Wales. The study was intended to suggest areas of interest for those concerned with the study of illness behaviour which might, at a later date, be looked at in the light of specific questions suitable for more comprehensive enquiry. This book will be of interest to students of medicine, medical sociology, and health care.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Differential access to the status sick
- 2 Decision-making in illness situations
- 3 The setting in which decisions are made
- 4 When decisions have been made
- 5 When ‘illness’ is not illness
- 6 Conclusions
- Appendix The families
- References
- Index