Concepts of health, illness, and disease : a comparative perspective /
Contributor(s): Currer, Caroline
| Stacey, Margaret.
Publisher: Leamington Spa ; New York : Berg, 1986Description: x, 324 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0907582184 :; 9780907582199:; 0907582192 : (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Health attitudes -- Cross-cultural studies | Diseases -- Public opinion -- Cross-cultural studies | Health attitudes | Diseases -- Public opinion | Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Collected Works | Disease -- Collected Works | Health -- Collected Works | Sociology, Medical -- Collected WorksDDC classification: 614.4 Summary: Both health care practitioners and health planners are beginning to recognize the importance of differences between lay and professional concepts of health and illness. The editors of this volume, having themselves worked in this field, have brought together writings by scholars from Britain, France, the United States, Germany and Poland.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 300-314.
Both health care practitioners and health planners are beginning to recognize the importance of differences between lay and professional concepts of health and illness. The editors of this volume, having themselves worked in this field, have brought together writings by scholars from Britain, France, the United States, Germany and Poland.