Contested Illness in Context by Harry Quinn Schone - 9780367730017

Contested Illness in ContextAn Interdisciplinary Study in Disease Definition\nAuthor(s): Harry Quinn Schone\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367730017, 978-0367730017\nSynopsis\nWhat makes a disease real? Why is it that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia are doubted when they say they are in pain, and cannot access the same benefits of patient-hood that others can? What defines the limits of our belief and, ultimately, compassion, when it comes to disease? \n\nThese are the questions approached in this book, which draws upon patients experiences and situates them among a diverse set of literatures, from the history and philosophy of medicine to the sociology of health and disease. The question of a patients identity and their understanding of disease is often assumed to emerge from their relationship with healthcare, but the case is made here that other, inter-personal factors are more salien.