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The Power of Belief
Examining the influence and power of beliefs in medicine, this text looks at key theories in the context of aetiology, treatment and recovery, for both the clinician and the patient.
The Scientific and Conceptual Basis of Incapacity Benefits
The number of people on long-term incapacity benefits has more than trebled since 1979 despite gradual improvements in objective measures of health. Many IB recipients are not completely incapable of work and many want to work, so reform of the system is a matter of social justice as well as expenditure. The aims of this report are to: develop a theoretical framework for incapacity benefits; analyse the developments and trends since 1948; provide a scientific evidence base for reform.
The Disability Handbook
Provides all who are involved with the new disability benefits (disability living allowance, disability working allowance and attendance allowance) a source of information on the likely effects that the more commonly occurring disabilities and chronic illnesses have on a person's care needs.
Back Pain, Incapacity for Work and Social Security Benefits
This book provides a comprehensive review of the scientific and social security literature, and social security statistics on back pain in various EU and OECD countries. This evidence is then integrated with a modern, biopsychosocial model of pain and disability to provide a factual and theoretical background to the debate on disability and incapacity benefits. Some of the issues raised may be equally relevant to other common social security problems such as musculoskeletal complaints, stress-related disorders and chronic fatigue.
The Disability Handbook
Disability Handbook
Malingering and Illness Deception
Despite a rich and turbulent history spanning several centuries, malingering continues to be a controversial and neglected clinical condition that has significant implications for medical, social, legal and insurance interests. Estimates of malingering - the wilful, intentional attempt to simulate or exaggerate illness in the pursuit of a consciously desired end - vary greatly, despite the fact that malingering is believed to contribute substantially to fraudulent health care and social welfare costs. There is little consensus about what would constitute a coherent assessment of malingering, and base rates have been difficult to establish. Malingering remains a difficult attribution to make ...
Biopsychosocial Medicine
To what extent do social factors such as stress cause physical diseases? How do psychological and social factors contribute to the healing process? The biopsychosocial model is an approach to medicine which stresses the importance of a holistic approach. It considers factors outside the biological process of illness when trying to understand health and disease. In this approach, a person's social context and psychological well-being are keyfactors in their illness and recovery, along with their thoughts, beliefs and emotions. Biopsychosocial Medicine examines the concept and the utility of this approach from its history to its application, and from its philosophical underpinnings to the barr...
Cash Not Care
Mo Stewart is a former healthcare professional, a disabled female veteran and an independent researcher. This book is the culmination of six years of self-funded research and the evidence exposes the influence of corporate America, since 1992, with the future welfare reforms of the UK. The impact of the enforced austerity measures of the UK government is identified, as they negatively affect the welfare and the survival of the chronically sick and disabled population in receipt of welfare benefits when unfit to work. The research has informed welfare reform debates in the House of Lords and the House of Commons since 2011 and contributed to the evidence used by the United Nations to investigate the UK government for breaches of the Human Rights of sick and disabled people. Endorsed by the disabled community and by academics, the research has identified the adoption of lethal social policies, copied from American social security policies, and linked to the death of thousands of the most vulnerable of all, as the UK welfare state is systematically demolished as all planned over thirty years ago by a previous Conservative government.
Sick Note
Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state. Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work from 1948 to 2010, Gareth Millward shows that doctors, employers, employees, politicians, media commentators, and citizens concerned themselves with measuring sickness. At various times, each understood that a signed note from a doctor was not enough to 'prove' whether someone was really sick. Yet, with no better alternative on offer, the sick note survived in practice and in the popular imagination - just like the welfare state i...
