Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shakespeare, Tom

Titel

Illness as a philosophical tool

Ist Teil von

• The Lancet (British edition), 2017-04, Vol.389 (10077), p.1387-1387

Ort / Verlag

London: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

Access via ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• When once I was bed-bound with back pain, I reached for the words of another invalid, Marcel Proust, and began to make headway with his experience of “lost time”. Surely such feelings and experiences should be represented within the medical curriculum, if trainee clinicians are to have insight into the lived experience of illness and impairment, rather than simply disease pathologies and therapies. [...]although sociologists have pointed to the social and economic barriers that make...