Description |
x, 144 pages ; 22 cm |
Series |
Experience of illness |
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Experience of illness.
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Contents |
1. Understanding motor neurone disease: the medical context -- 2. Motor neurone disease in the context of life: experiencing onset and diagnosis -- 3. Refraining life and death with motor neurone disease: the quest to understand and manage the disease -- 4. Everyday life in the early stages of motor neurone disease -- 5. The desperate search for causes and cures for motor neurone disease -- 6. Living and dying with motor neurone disease -- 7. The suffering of people with motor neurone disease and the rationality of scientific medicine |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Neuromuscular diseases.
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Author |
Hunter, Maggie, 1948-
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LC no. |
97032221 |
ISBN |
0415097118 (paperback) |
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