| Medical Humanism, Chronic Illness, and the Body in Pain: An Ecology of Wholeness Contributor(s): Agarwal, Vinita (Author) |
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ISBN: 1498596452 ISBN-13: 9781498596459 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $126.72 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Disease & Health Issues - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Medical |
| Dewey: 610.1 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.43 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Even as life expectancies increase, increasing numbers of people are living with chronic illness and pain than ever before. Long-term self-management of chronic conditions involves negotiating the intersections of personal life choices, community and workplace structures, and family roles. Medical Humanism, Chronic Illness, and the Body in Pain: An Ecology of Wholeness proposes an ecological model of wholeness, which envisions wholeness in the dialogic engagement of the philosophical orientations of the biomedical and traditional medical systems. Vinita Agarwal proposes an integrative premise of being whole through revising the fundamental definitions of humanism, rethinking the self/body/environment, and thereby recognizing alternative ways of organizing knowledge and human experience as this model pushes the intersections of patient-centered care and sustainable health ethics. It is in the spaces of such intersections, Agarwal argues, that we accomplish healing as an integrative relationship of the individual with the multiple cultural logics underlying chronic conditions and the competing medical worldviews of our contemporary landscape. Scholars of communication, health, and medical humanities, along with practitioners working with patients who have chronic conditions, will find this book particularly useful. |