The meaning of illness

Ed. by Mark Kidel and Susan Rowe-Leete. Based on 2 conferences held at Dartington Hall, Devon, England, in 1985 and 1986.

1 Illness and meaning - Kidel, Mark. 2 Items and motion - Tatham, Peter. 3 Heart abuse - McCormick, Elizabeth. 4 The doctor versus King Canute: from Georg Groddeck to family therapy - Kraemer, Sebastian. 5 Health and illness in Chinese society - Hill, Roger. 6 Health and illness: the homeopathic approach - Norland, Misha. 7 The patient as healer: how we can take part in our own recovery - Kitto, Pat. 8 'No, I can't do that, my consultant wouldn't like it.' - Spence, Jo. 9 No answer to Job: reflections on the limitations of meaning in illness - Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf. 10 Morbistic rituals - Ziegler, Alfred J.

'...offers new ways of understanding the nature of disease and explores the idea that health and illness have a special interdependence. Experiences which illness brings to our attention--limitation, vulnerability and dependence--are explored here as inescapable and valuable dimensions to human existence which we ignore at our peril.'

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