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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Overview and Perspective
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The Crisis of Illness: Stillbirth and Birth Defects
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The Crisis of Illness: Cancer
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The Crisis of Illness: Cardiovascular Disease
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The Crisis of Illness: Severe Burns
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The Crisis of Illness: Chronic Conditions
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About this book
This book discusses how human beings cope with serious physical ill ness and injury. A conceptual model for understanding the process of coping with the crisis of illness is provided, and basic adaptive tasks and types of coping skills are identified. The major portion of the book is organized around various types of physical illness. These physical illnesses, which almost all people face either in themselves or their family members, raise common relevant coping issues. The last few sections cover "the crisis of treatment," emphasizing the importance of unusual hospital environments and radical new medical treatments, of stresses on professional staff, and of issues related to death and the fear of dying. The material highlights the fact that people can successfully cope with life crises such as major ill ness and inj ury, rather than the fact that severe symptoms and/or breakdowns sometimes occur. The importance of support from professional care-givers, such as physicians, nurses, and social workers, and from family, friends, and other sources of help in the community, is emphasized. Many of the selections include case examples which serve to illustrate the material. Coping with Physical Illness has been broadly conceived to meet the needs of a diverse audience. There is substantial information about how human beings cope with illness and physical disability, but this material has never been collected in one place.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coping with Physical Illness
Editors: Rudolf H. Moos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9089-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Plenum Publishing Corporation 1977
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-9091-0Published: 31 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-9089-7Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 440
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary