One recent trend in medicine has been a redefinition of chronic illness. Whereas formerly chronic illness referred to a disease “which is progressive, steadily or with remissions, towards severe crippling or death,” it is now defined as a “long-term disease which might be cured if given adequate prolonged treatment or which might remit for long periods after treatment, enabling the patient to return to worth while living.” Coupled with this new perspective has been the development of the therapeutic community which calls for the treatment of the patient as a 'total individual' and not simply as a personified diagnosis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115041 |
| Date | January 1963 |
| Creators | Backler, Alan. L. |
| Contributors | Roseborough, H. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts. (Department of Sociology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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