The meaning of illness: A phenomenological approach to the patient-physician relationship

This work provides a phenomenological account of the experience of illness and the manner in which meaning is constituted in the physician-patient relationship. Rather than representing a shared reality between physician and patient, illness represents two quite distinct realities--the meaning of on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toombs, S. Kay E.
Other Authors: Crowell, Steven G.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16399