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• Title:Meaning-full disease : how personal experience and meanings cause and maintain physical illness / Brian Broom.
  
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• Variant Title:Meaningfull disease
  
• Author/Creator:Broom, Brian.
  
• Published/Created:London : Karnac, 2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM90 .B873 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: Mind and body.
  Experience--Health aspects.
  Somatoform disorders.
  Medicine, Psychosomatic.
  Sick--Psychology.
  Personality--Health aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects:Psychophysiologic Disorders.
  Mind-Body Relations (Metaphysics)
  
• Description:xiv, 213 pages ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary:This text looks at the nature of meaning, the relationship of meaning to the body, and the way in which meaning expresses itself in our health or lack of it. The author breaks through the constraints of traditional biomedicine and opens the door to truly understanding the personal meaning of illness and disease.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781855754638 (pbk.)
  1855754630 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:1. phenomena
  2. Colliding mind-sets
  3. Somatic metaphors
  4. Language-making and disease
  5. Meaning-full disease explorers
  6. Disease as communication
  7. Who 'sees' meaning-full disease?
  8. Meaning-full disease and the lebenswelt
  9. Meaning-full disease and the 'visible'
  10. Shifting awareness and different kinds of body
  11. scheming body
  12. Experience as a 'fundamental'
  13. Meaning-full disease and spirit.