The use of home detoxification enables health care workers to avoid episodes of in-patient care, with its inherent high costs and secondary problems of label attachment and possible stigmatization. Patients, their carers (professional, voluntary and domestic), families and frien…
Originally published in 1984, this book focuses, firstly, on how patients interpret and act in response to symptoms of illness; secondly on how social and psychological factors influence the treatment process; and thirdly, on certain kinds of illness where the psychosocial persp…
This work outlines treatment regimes, pharmaceutical agents and their effects upon symptoms and length of life. It describes the variety of measures used to assess health status, and how they have been developed and evaluated.