Conceptualising illness and disease
Reflections on Sharpe and Greco (2019)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12692209 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carolyn E Wilshire (0000-0002-0126-4708, Victoria University of Wellington, corresponding author), Tony Ward (0000-0002-6292-2364, Victoria University of Wellington) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 532-536 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-215X • E-ISSN: 1473-4265 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/medhum-2019-011756 |
| PMID | 31826926 |
| OpenAlex | W2995220973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
In a recent paper, Sharpe and Greco suggest that chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (MECFS) can be viewed as an instance of "illness without disease", and consequently, treatment should be directed towards altering the patient's experience of, and response to, their symptoms. We discuss two broad issues that arise from Sharpe and Greco's article, one relating to the assumptions they make about MECFS and its treatment specifically, and the other relating to their conceptualisation of the illness/disease dichotomy. We argue that the term "illness without disease", in the sense that Sharpe and Greco use it, is problematic because it can lead to unwarranted causal assumptions. Following these critical comments, we present a new framework for conceptualising the relationship between explanatory disease models and the experience of illness
Cognitive psychology · Disease · Epistemology · Pathology · Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
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Comparison of adaptive pacing therapy, cognitive behaviour therapy, graded exercise therapy, and specialist medical care for chronic fatigue syndrome (Pace)
Disease and illness Distinctions between professional and popular ideas of sickness
Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—a reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT
Chronic fatigue syndrome and an illness-focused approach to care
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |