Blind to Their Blindness: A History of the Denial of Illness

Blind to Their Blindness: A History of the Denial of Illness

For many historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of medicine, "disease" and "illness" are not equivalent. Whereas "disease" denotes the physician's ostensibly objective criteria, "illness" emphasizes the patient's subjective experience. This di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phelps, Scott Douglas
Other Authors: Harrington, Anne
Language:en_US
Published: Harvard University 2014
Subjects:
History of science
Mental health
Neurosciences
Anosognosia
Consciousness
Denial of illness
History of psychiatry and neurology
Mind-brain problem
Patient experience
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