What is illness? Is it a physiological dysfunction, a social label, or a way of experiencing the world? How do the physical, social and emotional worlds of a pe

Through drawings, helps children understand and learn to cope with family change when someone is very ill.

While in the ICU with a near-fatal case of pneumonia, Brett Walker was asked, “Do you have a family history of illness?”—a standard and deceptively simple

From one of the world's foremost physicians and researchers comes a monumental work that radically redefines conventional conceptions of health and illness to o

An examination of “digital coping” involving the use of communication technologies, particularly social media, in responding to illness. Communication techn