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The study of health care brings one into contact with many disciplines and perspectives, including those of the provider and the patient. There are also multiple academic lenses through which one can view health, illness and disease. This book brings together scholars from around the world who are interested in developing new conversations intended to situate health in broader social and cultural contexts. This book is the outcome of the second global conference on “Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease,” held at St Hilda's College, Oxford, in July 2003. The selected papers pursue a range of topics and incorporate perspectives from the humanities, social sciences and clinical sciences.
This volume will be of interest to researchers and health care practitioners who wish to gain insight into other ways of understanding health, illness and disease.
This volume will be of interest to researchers and health care practitioners who wish to gain insight into other ways of understanding health, illness and disease.
The study of health care brings one into contact with many disciplines and perspectives, including those of the provider and the patient. There are also multiple academic lenses through which one can view health, illness and disease. This book brings together scholars from around the world who ar...
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Peter L. Twohig and Vera Kalizkus co-edited Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease (Rodopi, 2004), a companion volume to this collection.
Dr Twohig is Canada Research Chair, Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, NS, Canada) where he specializes in studies of health and medicine. His research explores changing ideas of professional identity and clinical practice, focusing recently on the rise of evidence-based medicine. He has published two other books and his recent work has been published in Family Medicine, American Journal of Bioethics, British Medical Journal and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Dr Kalitzkus is a medical anthropologist. Her fields of interest are cultural conceptions of body and self; anthropology of death; biomedicine and doctor-patient-communication.She published a study on organtransplantation in Germany (“Leben durch den Tod. Die zwei Seiten der Organtransplantation in Deutschland. Eine medizinethnologische Studie. Frankfurt/New York: Campus).
Dr Twohig is Canada Research Chair, Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, NS, Canada) where he specializes in studies of health and medicine. His research explores changing ideas of professional identity and clinical practice, focusing recently on the rise of evidence-based medicine. He has published two other books and his recent work has been published in Family Medicine, American Journal of Bioethics, British Medical Journal and the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Dr Kalitzkus is a medical anthropologist. Her fields of interest are cultural conceptions of body and self; anthropology of death; biomedicine and doctor-patient-communication.She published a study on organtransplantation in Germany (“Leben durch den Tod. Die zwei Seiten der Organtransplantation in Deutschland. Eine medizinethnologische Studie. Frankfurt/New York: Campus).
Peter L. Twohig and Vera Kalizkus co-edited Making Sense of Health, Illness and Disease (Rodopi, 2004), a companion volume to this collection.
Dr Twohig is Canada Research Chair, Saint Mary’s University (Halifax, NS, Canada) where he specializes in studies of health and medicine. His research exp...
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