The Left Atrium Page 1 It is clear to me from reading Robert A. Aronowitz’s Making Sense of Ill-
ness that diagnosis is a creative endeavour. We physicians are like members of an academy …

Over the past twenty years the study of illness as experienced by patients has emerged as
an approach to understanding sickness and health in general. From descriptions of the …

Making Sense of Illness is a fascinating investigation into the social and clinical factors that
determine what constitutes a" legitimate" illness in the twentieth century. By examining six …

Medical research encompasses many diverse areas of investigation that overlap in complex
ways. Any attempt to organize such a vast body of information must almost inevitably draw …

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Issues in Health and Illness is intended to provide a
coherent volume of interdisciplinary scholarly work that brings a critical view to key …

When Hippocrates, the 'Father of Medicine', was born on the Greek island of Kos in 460 BC,
it was conventional medical wisdom that searching for disease aetiology in patients was …

The medical model, pivotal to biomedical practice, underpins the way in which sickness and
disease is understood within wider society. That is, most of us usually believe that being sick …

Throughout the centuries, cultural explanations for illness and disease have covered a
broad spectrum, ranging from imbalanced humors and miasmas to modern germ theories …

Disease has changed since 1812. People have different diseases, doctors hold different
ideas about those diseases, and diseases carry different meanings in society. To …

Disease is ubiquitous. Disease afflicts humans. It afflicts animals. It afflicts plants. People
refer to disease in their everyday conversation. Newspapers comment upon it. Parliaments …