The Illness Experience: Dimensions of Suffering

by Joy L. Johnson and Janice M. Morse

Book Overview

Vivid descriptions of the ways individuals and their families make sense of, respond to, cope with and adapt to symptoms and disabilities are provided in this volume in order to encourage students and professionals to embrace human reponses to illness. Topics addressed include adjustments following heart attacks, the experiences of women having hysterectomies, mothers involvement in their adolescent daughters abortions and husbands experiences during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803940548
• ISBN13: 9780803940543
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.