Worlds of Illness: Biographical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Disease

Introduction Alan Radley 1. Constructing discourse about health and their social determinants Janine Pierret 2. Social Class and the contextualization of illness experience Alan Blair 3. Attitude of mind as a means of resisting illness Kristian Pollock 4. Religion and Illness Rory Williams 5. Chronic illness and the pursuit of virtue in everyday life Gareth Williams 6. The role of metaphor in adjustment to chronic illness Alan Ridley 7. Why do the victims blame themselves? Mildred Blaxter 8. Towards the reconstruction of an organic mental disorder Tom Kitwood 9. The world of illness of the closed head injured Paul Bellaby 10. On knowing the patient: experiences of nurses undertaking care Martha MacLeod 11. On chronic illness: immigrant women in Canada's workforce Joan Anderson