Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment
Autor Neil Vickers, Derek Boltonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 dec 2024
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 also make societies more resilient to illness. This is an essential book on the experience of major illness.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781789149111
ISBN-10: 1789149118
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
ISBN-10: 1789149118
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Notă biografică
Neil Vickers is professor of English literature and the health humanities at King’s College London and has had a career in epidemiology. He has published widely on literature and medical subjects and is the author of Coleridge and the Doctors. Derek Bolton is emeritus professor of philosophy and psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King’s College London. Among his many books, he is the author of What Is Mental Disorder? and coauthor of The Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Disease.
Cuprins
Introduction
1: Emergent Illness
2: Care
3: The Pariah Syndrome
4: Biopsychosocial Beings
Conclusion
References
Bibliography
Index
1: Emergent Illness
2: Care
3: The Pariah Syndrome
4: Biopsychosocial Beings
Conclusion
References
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
"How well do we look after people who are seriously sick? Astonishingly, research is scant—which makes Vickers and Bolton's ambitious new book, Being Ill, very welcome. . . . Being Ill stands out not only for its original perspective but for the non-judgemental tone of its authors."
"A pioneering volume. For our ageing population, varieties of illness have become headline news, an ever-present talking-point for which we badly need fresh thinking. Vickers and Bolton demonstrate how the reach of medical humanities can be extended by empathy and health science. This study of the 'collective psychobiological' dimensions of illness is radical in its implications. Potentially, it offers a new way forward for our understanding of the ways the human animal inter-relates in sickness and in health."
"Vickers and Bolton elucidate the contradiction between the human need for caring relationships and people’s tendency to pull away from those who are ill and disabled. They assemble the broadest range of studies—from infant research to microsociology to neurology and epigenetics—to explain why relationships between the healthy and the ill are often fraught. Readers who seek a scientific basis for medical humanities will find much of value here."
"The reaction to illness, our own and that of others to whom we are close, reveals much of what it means to be human and live in society. Such is the theme of this humane and scholarly study which has much to say about the fundamentals of caring for others, both when they are ill, and when they are well."