The Process of Becoming Ill

In: Routledge Revivals Series

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Differential Access to the Status Sick -- Validation of the Status Sick -- Signs of Illness -- Differential Access to the Status Sick -- 2 Decision-Making in Illness Situations -- 3 The Setting in Which Decisions are Made -- Illness Situation Concepts -- Occupational Status and Differential Perceptions of Certain Illness Situation Roles -- General Practitioner's Classification of Families and Differential Perceptions of Certain Illness Situation Roles -- 4 When Decisions have Been Made -- Illness Situations and Gift Exchange -- The Question of Deviance -- 5 When 'Illness' is not Illness -- Mental 'Illness', Terminal 'Illness' and the Use of Myths -- The Case of Chronic 'Illness' -- 6 Conclusions -- Implications for the Administration of Primary Medical Care -- Appendix The Families -- References -- Index.