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Mental Representation in Health and Illness

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. J. A. Skelton

    1. Department of Psychology, Benjamin D. James Center, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA

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  2. Robert T. Croyle

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Psychology and Medicine (CONTRIBUTIONS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Mental Representation, Health, and Illness: An Introduction

    • J. A. Skelton, Robert T. Croyle
    Pages 1-9

  3. Lay Illness Models in the Enlightenment and the 20th Century: Some Historical Lessons

    • Renate Schober, J. Michael Lacroix
    Pages 10-31

  4. Understanding the Understanding of Illness: Lay Disease Representations

    • George D. Bishop
    Pages 32-59

  5. Situational, Dispositional, and Genetic Bases of Symptom Reporting

    • David Watson, James W. Pennebaker
    Pages 60-84

  6. Psychological Reactions to Risk Factor Testing

    • Robert T. Croyle, John B. Jemmott III
    Pages 85-107

  7. Laypersons’ Judgments of Patient Credibility and the Study of Illness Representations

    • J. A. Skelton
    Pages 108-131

  8. Illness Representations in Medical Anthropology: A Critical Review and a Case Study of the Representation of AIDS in Haiti

    • Paul Farmer, Byron J. Good
    Pages 132-162

  9. A Mental Representation Approach to Health Policy Analysis

    • K. Mark Leek
    Pages 163-192

  10. Assessing Illness Schemata in Patient Populations

    • J. Michael Lacroix
    Pages 193-219

  11. Symptom Perception, Symptom Beliefs, and Blood Glucose Discrimination in the Self-Treatment of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes

    • Linda A. Gonder-Frederick, Daniel J. Cox
    Pages 220-246

  12. The Active Side of Illness Cognition

    • Howard Leventhal, Michael Diefenbach
    Pages 247-272

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 273-284
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About this book

How do individuals conceive illness and symptoms? Do their conceptions conflict with the physician's views of their illness, and what happens if they do? This book thoroughly explores the field of disease representation, describes and discusses lay illness models in a variety of social, histo- rical and cultural contexts.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Benjamin D. James Center, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA

    J. A. Skelton

  • Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

    Robert T. Croyle

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mental Representation in Health and Illness

  • Editors: J. A. Skelton, Robert T. Croyle

  • Series Title: Contributions to Psychology and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9074-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-9076-3Published: 10 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-9074-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-195X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 284

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry

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