Authors of Our Own Misfortune?: The Problems with Psychogenic Explanations for Physical Illnesses
- ISBN-10
- 0857181017
- ISBN-13
- 9780857181015
- Category
- Diseases
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Courseware4trainers Limited
- Author
- Angela Kennedy
Description
"Since the advent of "medicine" as a discrete practice, beliefs that bodily illness can somehow be caused by psychological, emotional, and behavioural "disorder" have been claimed by many in the discipline. Such beliefs became less creditable as scientific methods of detecting disease developed, with discoveries such as the physiological and anatomical abnormalities in Parkinson's disease and Multiple Sclerosis, for example, and the organisms causing syphilis and duodenal ulcers. Nevertheless, psychogenic explanations for illnesses still appear frequently within medical and academic literature, in "common sense" public discourses, and in medical diagnoses of patients. But how plausible are these explanations?" -- Back cover.
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