Explaining Illness

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Research, Theory, and Strategies

By: Bryan B. Whaley (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 November 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Understanding one''s health conditions plays a key role in a patient''s response to illness, influencing stress levels and the likelihood of following treatment regimens and advice. Thus, the explanation of illness is a critical component of the interactions between health care providers and their patients. Emphasizing these exchanges and their potential for improving health and well being, Bryan B. Whaley has assembled this collection to serve both as a foundation for further research on explaining illness and as a resource for provider-patient interaction.

Contributors from the communication and health care disciplines examine the purpose and methods of explaining illness, as well as the role that illness explanations play in framing and reframing meaning and uncertainty regarding one''s health welfare. Including theoretical, developmental, and cultural factors, the elegance of this book is the richness in the differences among populations and communication strategies, and the articulation of the intricacies of language, illness, and culture in the explanations.

As a resource for scholars and students of communication, medicine, nursing, public health, social work, and related areas, this volume establishes a benchmark from which to examine and evaluate current theory and strategies in explaining illness, and to launch systematic research endeavors. Health practitioners will also find the book invaluable in their exchanges with their patients, as a unique source of information on the factors influencing the explanation of illness.

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Non-Fiction Medicine Medicine in General Medical Profession Doctor Patient Relationship Family & Health Relationships & Families: Advice & Issues Public Health & Preventive Medicine Psychology Social Psychology Science Biology, Life Sciences

Human Biology Medical Anthropology Sociology & Anthropology Language & Linguistics

Foreword	p. xi
References	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvi
Foundational Theoretical Issues	p. 1
The Nature and Language of Illness Explanations	p. 3
References	p. 27
Managing Uncertainty in Illness Explanation: An Application of Problematic Integration Theory	p. 41
References	p. 63
Explaining Illness Through the Mass Media: The Problem-Solving Perspective	p. 69
Acknowledgments	p. 96
References	p. 96
Explaining Illness as Bad News: Individual Differences in Explaining Illness-Related Information	p. 101
References	p. 118
Populations And New Sources Of Explanation	p. 121
Explaining Illness to Patients with Limited Literacy	p. 123
References	p. 141
Explaining Illness: An Examination of Message Strategies and Gender	p. 147
References	p. 167
Explaining Illness to Older Adults: The Complexities of the Provider-Patient Interaction as We Age	p. 171
References	p. 192
Explaining Illness to Children: Theory, Strategies, and Future Inquiry	p. 195
References	p. 205
Pharmacists' New Communicative Role: Explaining Illness and Medicine to Patients	p. 209
References	p. 229
Cocultural Issues And Explaining Illness	p. 235
Native Americans Explaining Illness: Storytelling as Illness Experience	p. 237
References	p. 255
Explaining Illness to Latinos: Cultural Foundations and Messages	p. 259
References	p. 277
Using Interpreters To Explain Illness	p. 280
Explaining Illness to Asian and Pacific Islander Americans: Culture, Communication, and Boundary Regulation	p. 283
References	p. 295
Explaining Illness to African Americans: Employing Cultural Concerns with Stra tegies	p. 299
References	p. 314
Commentary and Continued Concerns	p. 317
References	p. 326
Author Index	p. 327
Subject Index	p. 349
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