Framing Disease Studies in Cultural History by Charles E. Rosenberg PAPERBACK

Framing DiseaseStudies in Cultural History\nAuthor(s): Charles E. Rosenberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9780813517575, 978-0813517575\nSynopsis\n\""In some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming, and responding to it, \"" writes Charles E. Rosenberg in his introduction to this stimulating set of essays. Disease is both a biological event and a social phenomenon. Patient, doctor, family, and social institutions-including employers, government, and insurance companies-all find ways to frame the biological event in terms that make sense to them and serve their own ends. \n\nMany diseases discussed here-endstage renal disease, rheumatic fever, parasitic infectious diseases, coronary thrombosis-came to be defined, redefined, and renamed over the course of several centuries. As these essays show, the concept of disease has also been used to frame culturally re.