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The Management of Chronic Illness

Patient and Doctor Perspectives on Parkinson’s Disease

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  • © 1990
  • Latest edition

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Authors:
  1. Ruth Pinder
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ruth Pinder
    Pages 1-10

  3. Explaining What to Expect: Beliefs and Routines

    • Ruth Pinder
    Pages 11-24

  4. Understanding the Implications: Knowledge as a Resource?

    • Ruth Pinder
    Pages 25-40

  5. The Drug Regimen: ‘We Can Treat It’

    • Ruth Pinder
    Pages 41-53

  6. The Honeymoon Period—And After

    • Ruth Pinder
    Pages 54-67

  7. Detachment or Empathy?

    • Ruth Pinder
    Pages 68-82

  8. Controlling the Uncontrollable: Making Sense of Living with P.D.

    • Ruth Pinder
    Pages 83-96

  9. Conclusions: Patient and Doctor—Match and Mismatch

    • Ruth Pinder
    Pages 97-111

  10. Doing Research: More Than an Afterthought

    • Ruth Pinder
    Pages 112-126

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 130-141
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About this book

Uncertainty is part of the human condition. But for patients with a chronic illness such as Parkinson's Disease and for the GPs who care for them, uncertainty and its management take on an added edge. Dr Pinder, in a series of moving portraits, shows how the differing anxieties of both parties may, if unacknowledged, lead them down different paths, with distressing consequences for patients. By contrast, a responsive GP may make living with P.D. more bearable. The author argues that an imaginative understanding of the illness experience may enable GPs to care more effectively for their chronically ill patients. The book presents a compelling case for looking afresh at patient-doctor interaction.

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