Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History (Health and Medicine in American Society)
By Unknown Author.
Description
"In some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming, and responding to it, " writes Charles E. Rosenberg in his introduction to this stimulating set of essays. Disease is both a biological event and a social phenomenon. Patient, doctor, family, and social institutions—including employers, government, and insurance companies—all find ways to frame the biological event in terms that make sense to them and serve their own ends.Many diseases discussed here—endstage renal disease, rheumatic fever, parasitic infectious diseases...
ISBN(s)
0813517575, 9780813517575
