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Book SynopsisEven as life expectancies increase, increasing numbers of people are living with chronic illness and pain than ever before. Long-term self-management of chronic conditions involves negotiating the intersections of personal life choices, community and workplace structures, and family roles. Medical Humanism, Chronic Illness, and the Body in Pain: An Ecology of Wholeness proposes an ecological model of wholeness, which envisions wholeness in the dialogic engagement of the philosophical orientations of the biomedical and traditional medical systems as this model pushes the intersections of patient-centered care and sustainable health ethics. Vinita Agarwal proposes an integrative premise of being whole through revising the fundamental definitions of humanism, rethinking the self/body/environment, and thereby recognizing alternative ways of organizing knowledge and human experience as this model pushes the intersections of patient-centered care and sustainable health ethics. It is in the s
Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Wholeness Project
Chapter 2: A Social Constructionist Epistemology
Chapter 3: The Reflexive Self
Chapter 4: The Embodied Self
Chapter 5: The Discursive Body
Chapter 6: The Material Body
Chapter 7: Time, Change, and Illness Intrusion
Chapter 8: Traditional Health Systems
Chapter 9: Food, Nature, and Body/Self-Integration
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