Mental Representation in Health and Illness

1 Mental Representation, Health, and Illness: An Introduction.- Illness Schemata and the Representational Approach.- Current Trends in Illness Cognition Research.- The Present Volume.- Future Directions for Research and Theory in Illness Cognition.- 2 Lay Illness Models in the Enlightenment and the 20th Century: Some Historical Lessons.- Contemporary Lay Illness Models.- Lay Illness Models in the Enlightenment.- A Historical Note on Hippocratic-Galenic Medicine.- Clinical Lessons From Historical Research.- 3 Understanding the Understanding of Illness: Lay Disease Representations.- The Nature of Disease Representations.- Implications of Disease Representations.- Future Directions.- Conclusion.- 4 Situational, Dispositional, and Genetic Bases of Symptom Reporting.- The Prevailing View of Health Complaints: Naive Realism.- Situational Factors That Influence Health Complaints.- Dispositional Bases of Symptom Reporting: The Central Role of Negative Affectivity.- Heritable Bases of Symptom Reporting.- Integrating the Situational, Dispositional, and Heritability Approaches.- The Symptom Perception Model.- Implications of the Findings.- 5 Psychological Reactions to Risk Factor Testing.- Previous Research on Risk Factor Testing.- The TAA Enzyme Paradigm.- Extensions to Actual Risk Factors.- Conclusion.- 6 Laypersons' Judgments of Patient Credibility and the Study of Illness Representations.- Patient Credibility in Contemporary Biomedicine.- Patient Credibility and the Lay Perceiver.- Research Evidence on Lay Perceptions of Patient Credibility.- Conclusion.- 7 Illness Representations in Medical Anthropology: A Critical Review and a Case Study of the Representation of AIDS in Haiti.- Historical Background.- Four Anthropological Approaches to the Study of IllnessRepresentations.- Case Study: AIDS Comes to a Haitian Village.- The Cultural Context of Illness Representations: Six Questions for the Researcher.- Conclusions.- 8 A Mental Representation Approach to Health Policy