Health Care: Its Psychosocial Dimensions
- ISBN-10
- 039101630X
- ISBN-13
- 9780391016309
- Series
- Health Care
- Category
- Medical / Diseases
- Pages
- 215
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- Duquesne University Press
- Authors
- David C. Thomasma, Jurrit Bergsma
Description
Calling on the methodology of psychology, the authors explore the way illness alters the self-image of the sick person, and the way the experience changes the person who is ill. The reader is taken through the psychological impacts of the first clinical moment when the patient realizes he or she is in the altered state of illness, as well as the subsequent effects of pain, hospitalization, being bed-ridden, fatigued or disabled. The central thesis is that an integral picture of medicine must include social-cultural aspects, the institutionalization of health care, and an attempt to provide patient-centered care. The approach taken is the empirically based psychosocial reflection of the disturbances to a person's self-image caused by various kinds of illness. Focusing on the world of the patient, the authors relate to problems concerning self-image, pain, exhaustion, isolation, handicaps, aging, dying and death. The relationships between patients and medical personnel are also examined. Concluding the work is an excellent bibliography keyed to the chapters of the text.
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