Blind to Their Blindness
Subtitle: A History of the Denial of Illness
Contributors: Harrington, Anne; Kuriyama, Shigehisa; Rosenberg, Charles E.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Description: For many historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of medicine, "disease" and "illness" are not equivalent. Whereas "disease" denotes the physicians's ostensibly objective criteria, "illness" emphasizes the patient's subjective experience. This dissertation examines that distinction precisely at a point where it breaks down, in the history of a diagnosis called "anosognosia," also known as the denial of illness.
Notes: Keywords: Anosognosia, Consciousness, Denial of illness, History of psychiatry and neurology, Mind-brain problem, Patient experience.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2014