The Meaning of Illness : The Phenomenological Account of the Different Perspectives of Physician and Patient by S. Kay Toombs
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Description
This work provides a phenomenological account of the experience of illness and the manner in which meaning is constituted by the patient and the physician. The author provides a detailed account of the way in which illness and body are apprehended differently by doctor and patient. This title has been awarded the first Edwin Goodwin Ballard Prize in Phenomenology.