Both health care practitioners and health planners are beginning to recognize the importance of differences between lay and professional concepts of health and
What counts as health or ill health? How do we deal with the fallibility of our own bodies? Should illness and disease be considered simply in biological terms,
The concepts of health and disease play pivotal roles in medicine and the health professions This volume brings together the requisite literature for understand
In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away
Dr Taylor's book analyses the disease concept as it developed in medical history and seeks to clarify it with the help of concepts largely derived from logical