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In Sickness And In Power
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Author : David Owen
language : en
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Release Date : 2008
In Sickness And In Power written by David Owen and has been published by Methuen Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This study of illness in heads of government between 1901 and 2007 considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the process of government and decision-making, leading to acts of folly, in the sense of stupidity or rashness.
Power And Illness The Political Sociology Of Health And Medical Care
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Author : Elliott A. Krause
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Power And Illness The Political Sociology Of Health And Medical Care written by Elliott A. Krause and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
Power And Illness
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Author : Daniel M. Fox
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1995-02-09
Power And Illness written by Daniel M. Fox and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-02-09 with Medical categories.
During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness—even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this has been so and offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national health care priorities. Fox discusses how ideas about illness and health care, as well as the power of special interest groups, have shaped the ways in which Americans have treated illness. Those who make health policy decisions have increased support for hospitals, physicians, and medical research, believing that people then would become healthier. This position, implemented at considerable cost, has not adequately taken into account the growing burden of chronic disabling illness. While decision makers may have defined chronic disease as a high priority in research, they have not given it such a priority in the financing of health services. The increasing burden of chronic illness is critical. Fox suggests ways to solve this problem without increasing the already high cost of health care—but he does not underestimate the difficulties in such a strategy. Advocating the redistribution of resources within hospital and medical services, he targets those that are redundant or marginally effective. There could be no more timely subject today than American health care. And Daniel Fox is uniquely able to address its problems. A historian of medicine, with knowledge of how hospitals and physicians behave and how health policy is made at government levels, he has extensively researched published and unpublished documents on health care. What he proposes could profoundly affect all Americans.
The Healing Power Of Illness
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Author : Thorwald Dethlefsen
language : en
Publisher: Element Books, Limited
Release Date : 1997
The Healing Power Of Illness written by Thorwald Dethlefsen and has been published by Element Books, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Health & Fitness categories.
Originally published in Germany in 1983, this pioneering book was the first to tie physical symptoms to their spiritual components. Now the revised paperback edition combines the skills of a trained psychologist and a medical practitioner to show how patients actually create illnesses; symptoms are real; healing is an expansion of consciousness.
The Transforming Power Of Illness
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Author : William M. Kaufman Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2007-03-21
The Transforming Power Of Illness written by William M. Kaufman Ph.D. and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-21 with Education categories.
A powerful journey incredible value for anyone who reads this marvelous piece of work! Michael Brickman, CEO, Alternative Health Partners Inc. The readers mind and heart will be engaged and moved by the life-affirming narratives unfolding in this book. Superbly written, it is grounded in scholarly research protocol and enlivened by deep understanding. This inspired account is of value to scholars, clergy, laity, and all who wrestle with the problem of meaning. Dr. Frances Kostarelos, Professor, Anthropology and Political and Justice Studies Governors State University Can illness be a gift? It can be a part of lifes great journey. Genuine healing transcends the elimination of illness. Viewed as an opportunity to grow, we learn how to bring our lives back into balance and realize our true potential. Illness can force us to explore the meaning and purpose of our lives, and our relationships. It can lead us to examine our own mortality, what we have become, and how we wish others to remember us. It can guide us to understand how the many other events of our lives can move us into healing, While cancer, AIDS, and other life-threatening diseases have facilitated many to transform their lives, for each of us, life itselfand all our illnessescan be the great journey into healing; the greatest journey well ever take. The great transformation from an unexamined life bound by the pain of separation from others, into the awareness that ones essence connects with all others in the unity of spirit, is the gift of life. Illness can be a vehicle to get us there. All the people described in these pages took that journey. From their accounts we learn how they were transformed, and how they came to accept their illnesses as gifts.
Illness And Power
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Author : Brant Wenegrat
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1996-09
Illness And Power written by Brant Wenegrat and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-09 with Psychology categories.
Wenegrat (psychiatry, Stanford U. School of Medicine) argues that women's lack of social power, as defined as the ability to provide for one's needs and security and to make decisions based on one's own desires, is to blame for their excess risk for certain mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and multiple personality. He reviews women's social power and mental illness from an evolutionary and cross-cultural perspective and addresses 19th- century women's disorders and illness roles. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Men S Health And Illness
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Author : Donald Sabo
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Release Date : 1995-08-30
Men S Health And Illness written by Donald Sabo and has been published by SAGE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-30 with Social Science categories.
The reader, whether a professional health care worker, researcher, clinician, or concerned individual, will obtain a clearer perspective on the connections between men′s health and gender, along with a broader conceptualization of the experiences of men in contemporary society. --Choice Men′s Health and Illness contextualizes men′s health issues within the broader theoretical framework of the new men′s studies. This framework focuses on the profound influence of gender on social life and individual experience. The editors and chapter contributors of this groundbreaking volume argue that gender is a key factor for understanding the patterns of men′s health risks, the ways men perceive and use their bodies, and men′s psychological adjustment to illness itself. Part I introduces readers to men′s studies perspectives and explains their relevance for understanding men′s health. Part II explores the linkages between traditional gender roles, men′s health, and larger structural and cultural contexts, and Part III examines the implications of multiple masculinities for health issues. The scope of this volume is both multidisciplinary and international. The authors use quantitative and qualitative research methodologies which provide a well-rounded analysis of the subject matter. Taken collectively, the contributions to Men′s Health and Illness reflect current efforts by men′s studies practitioners to develop theoretical explanations of men′s lives that also refer to the influences of class, race, ethnicity, sexual preference, and age. This collaborative effort in presenting research and theories is so significant that it should become part of the literature studied by advocates of women′s studies and men′s studies. The reader, whether professional healthcare worker, researcher, clinician, or concerned individual will obtain a clearer perspective on the connections between men′s health and gender, along with a broader conceptualization of the experiences of men in contemporary society. Upper-division undergraduate through professional." --Choice
Men S Health And Illness
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Author : Donald Sabo
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 1995-08-30
Men S Health And Illness written by Donald Sabo and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-30 with Social Science categories.
Gift to King's University College Library from The London Grief Resource Centre, 2006.
Curing Their Ills
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Author : Megan Vaughan
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1991
Curing Their Ills written by Megan Vaughan and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Medical categories.
This is a lively and original book, which treats Western biomedical discourse about illness in Africa as a cultural system that constructed "the African" out of widely varying, and sometimes improbable, materials. Referring mainly to British dependencies in East and Central Africa in the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, it draws on diverse sources ranging from court records and medical journals to fund-raising posters and "jungle doctor" cartoons. Curing Their Ills brings refreshing concreteness and dynamism to the discussion of European attitudes toward their others, as it traces the shifts and variations in medical discourse on African illness. Among the topics the book covers are the differences between missionary medicine, which emphasized individual responsibility for sin and disease, and secular medicine, which tended toward an ethnic model of collective pathology; leprosy and the construction of the social role of "the leper"; and the struggle to define insanity in a context of great ignorance about what the "normal African" was like and a determination to crush indigenous beliefs about bewitchment. The underlying assumption of this discourse was that disease was produced by the disintegration and degeneration of "tribal" cultures, which was seen to be occurring in the process of individualization and modernization. This was a cultural rather than a materialist model, the argument being that Africans were made sick not by the material changes to their lives and environment, but by their cultural "maladaptation" to modern life. The "scientific" discourse about the biological inferiority of "the African," traced by one school of scientists to defects in the frontal lobe, makes painful reading today; it persisted into the 1950s.
In Sickness And In Power
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Author : David Owen
language : en
Publisher: Methuen
Release Date : 2022-03-17
In Sickness And In Power written by David Owen and has been published by Methuen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Sickness and In Power looks at illness in heads of government, business and military leaders between 1901 and 2007. It considers how illness and therapy - both physical and mental - affect the decision-making of heads of government, engendering folly, in the sense of foolishness, stupidity or rashness. Owen is particularly interested in leaders who were not ill in the conventional sense, whose cognitive faculties functioned well, but who developed a 'hubristic syndrome' that powerfully affected their performance and their actions. As we learn here, they suffer a loss of capacity and become excessively self-confident and contemptuous of advice that runs counter to what they believe, or sometimes of any advice at all. Long fascinated with the inter-relationship between politics and medicine, David Owen uses his deep knowledge of both to look at sickness in political leaders. Owen expertly scrutinises such diverse political personalities as Sir Anthony Eden at the time of Suez in 1956; John F. Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961; the last Shah of Iran; and President Mitterrand of France who suffered from prostate cancer. The author also devotes a chapter to the hubristic behaviour and relationship between President Bush and Prime Minister Blair. The book ends by outlining some of the safeguards that society needs to address as a consequence of illness in heads of government. Revised and Updated Edition for 2016 including a new chapter entitled Hubris Syndrome in the Military.