Long before the Lele people of Papua New Guinea had significant contact with the Western world and Christianity, they had developed a framework for understanding sickness and healing with a strong emphasis on the unseen world. This study examines how mature Lele Christians of the Evangelical Church of Manus assess traditional health concepts in light of their Christian faith and Scripture. By using cognitive theory as an interpretive approach, this research serves as a case study to illustrate the mental processes that take place when Christians in an animistic context make sense of their traditional culture. Simon Herrmann spent 15 years in Papua New Guinea, the United States and Malaysia. He now works as a lecturer in Intercultural Theology at the Internationale Hochschule Liebenzell (IHL).

12 Deliciously naughty stories and overviews that will change your perspective of life. Reads like fiction, but its self help. Sometimes it takes looking at others to begin seeing yourself. Hate having drama in your life but can't seem to turn away from hearing about the theatrics that happen to others? If so, then you will love reading Faces of Sickness.Sick As $ *?. The book is about betrayal, scheming, love and almost everything in between that happens in life. Through reading the stories and overviews included in Faces of Sickness.Sick As $ *?, you will be privy to some of the dramatic-and sometimes traumatic-experiences that the characters in the stories experience. You will also learn why they have these experiences. When you pick up this book, be ready for a journey, as the incidents the characters experience in this book are a trip Be sure to pack an open mind-though the stories are entertaining, you may find there will be a little pit stop here and there where you just might learn something about life and about yourself. Faces of Sickness.Sick As $ *? is an absolute must-have for anyone looking for better relationships-with their Selves, and with others.

The increasing importance of sickness and disability data across health-related disciplines is the focus of this concise but comprehensive resource. It reviews the basics of morbidity at the population level by defining core concepts, analyzing why morbidity has overtaken mortality as central to demographic study, and surveying ways these data are generated, accessed, and measured. Subsequent chapters demonstrate how this knowledge can be used to better understand—and potentially solve—critical public health issues, benefitting not only populations served, but also areas such as health services planning, resource allocation, and health policy-setting. To make this material useful to the most readers, this reference: Explains why and how morbidity data are categorized by health professionals and other data users. Examines various methods of identifying and measuring morbidity data. Identifies demographic and non-demographic factors associated with morbidity. Describes and evaluates sources of U.S. morbidity data. Reviews the current state of morbidity in the U.S., and what it means for healthcare and society in general. Suggests future uses of morbidity data in reducing health disparities and improving population health. In Sickness and In Health is uniquely relevant to demographers and demography students, public health professionals, and epidemiologists. Its presentation of concepts and applications makes the book a valuable classroom text and a useful guide for those addressing challenges facing U.S. healthcare.

Dr. Wilson's battle with unexplained illness led her to seek supernatural intervention. Her recovery caused her to be an advocate for supernatural healing. She incorporates natural herbs, and other alternative treatments in order to achieve wellness. Almost everyone knows of someone who suffers or has died from the dreaded disease —CANCER. Cancer is now epidemic in this and many other countries. The American Cancer Society reports that over one million new cases are diagnosed annually. You do not have to be listed among these statistics. Yes, there is HOPE. The demand for easily understood, practical and applicable preventive self- help information is unprecedented. It is time to confront and stop the devastation of this and other deadly diseases. The toll on lives reveal the limitations of traditional health care practices.

In Sickness and In Health: turning tragedy into holiness is a story of a woman who fell in love with a man, who had been recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Filled with hopes and dreams for the future, she did not know that their lives would be shattered by psychosis, suicidal ideation and the abduction of their six year old son, leading her on a wild chase to the bottom of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we therefore must turn to the stories we tell about illness, suffering, and medical care. Stories of Sickness explores the many dimensions of what illness means to the sufferers and to those around them, drawing on depictions of illness in great works of literature and in nonfiction accounts. The exploration is primarily philosophical but incorporates approaches from literature and from the medical social sciences. When it was first published in 1987, Stories of Sickness helped to inaugurate a renewed interest in the importance of narrative studies in health care. For the Second Edition the text has been thoroughly revised and significantly expanded. Four almost entirely new chapters have been added on the nature, complexities, and rigor of narrative ethics and how it is carried out. There is also an additional chapter on maladaptive ways of being sick that deals in greater depth with disability issues. Health care professionals, students of medicine and bioethics, and ordinary people coping with illness, no less than scholars in the health care humanities and social sciences, will find much value in this volume. Unique Features: *Philosophically sophisticated yet clearly written and easily accessible *Interdisciplinary approach--combines philosophy, literature, health care, social sciences *Contains many fascinating stories and vignettes of illness drawn from both fiction and nonfiction *A new and comprehensive overview of the "hot topic" of narrative ethics in medicine and health care

This title was first published in 2001. With critical observations on past approaches to this issue and the proposal of alternative lines of inquiry, this book is concerned with the attempts made by sociologists (and to a lesser extent, doctors) to account for patterns of social conduct that are observably associated with periods of illness. The author argues that medical sociologists have confused the proper realms of biological and sociological inquiry, and that it is this confusion that lies at the heart of the paucity of genuinely informative work in this field. The first chapter examines some of the influential explanations of the social consequences of illness that medical sociologists have put forward. The author analyzes representative selections from the body of literature on illness behaviour and on attempts to formulate accounts of illness within that tradition.

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