ROSENBERG, CHARLES E. AND JANET GOLDEN, EDITORS
Framing Disease : Studies in Cultural History
New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997. Second Printing; Softcover. ISBN: 0813517575. xxvi, 326 pages; Soft cover has green spine with black lettering. Very slight rubbing to covers. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. "In some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming, and responding to it, " writes Charles E. Rosenberg in his introduction to this stimulating set of essays. Disease is both a biological event and a social phenomenon. Patient, doctor, family, and social institutions-including employers, government, and insurance companies-all find ways to frame the biological event in terms that make sense to them and serve their own ends. Many diseases discussed here-endstage renal disease, rheumatic fever, parasitic infectious diseases, coronary thrombosis-came to be defined, redefined, and renamed over the course of several centuries. As these essays show, the concept of disease has also been used to frame culturally resonant behaviors: suicide, homosexuality, anorexia nervosa, chronic fatigue syndrome. Disease is also framed by public policy, as the cases of industrial disability and of forensic psychiatry demonstrate. Medical institutions, as managers of people with disease, come to have vested interests in diagnoses, as the histories of facilities to treat tuberculosis or epilepsy reveal..." Index.. Fine .

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