Mental Representation in Health and Illness

Chapter 1 Mental Representation, Health, and Illness: An Introduction

Chapter 2 Lay Illness Models in the Enlightenment and the 20th Century: Some Historical Lessons

Chapter 3 Understanding the Understanding of Illness: Lay Disease Representations

Chapter 4 Situational, Dispositional, and Genetic Bases of Symptom Reporting

Chapter 5 Psychological Reactions to Risk Factor Testing

Chapter 6 Laypersons’ Judgments of Patient Credibility and the Study of Illness Representations

Chapter 7 Illness Representations in Medical Anthropology: A Critical Review and a Case Study of the Representation of AIDS in Haiti

Chapter 9 Assessing Illness Schemata in Patient Populations

Chapter 10 Symptom Perception, Symptom Beliefs, and Blood Glucose Discrimination in the Self-Treatment of Insulin-Dependent Diabetes

Chapter 11 The Active Side of Illness Cognition