New directions in the sociology of chronic and disabling conditions : assaults on the lifeworld
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New directions in the sociology of chronic and disabling conditions : assaults on the lifeworld
Palgrave Macmillan, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Bringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic illness and disability, disability theory, doctor-patient encounters, lifeworld issues and the new genetics.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions
- G.Scambler & S.Scambler Studying the Experience of Chronic Illness Through Grounded Theory
- K.Charmaz Medical Sociology and Disability Theory
- C.Thomas 'Beyond Models': Understanding the Complexity of Disabled People's Lives
- T.Shakespeare & N.Watson 'Where the Biological Predominates': Habitus, Reflexivity and Capital Accrual within the Field of Batten Disease
- S.Scambler & P.Newton Discerning Biological, Psychological and Social Mechanisms in the Impact of Epilepsy on the Individual: A Framework and Exploration
- G.Scambler, P.Afentouli & C.Selai Retheorizing the Clinical Encounter: Normalization Processes and the Corporate Ecologies of Care
- C.May 'Chronicity', Proto-Stories and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
- A.Radley Chronic Illness, Self-Management and the Rhetoric of Empowerment
- M.Bury Understanding Incapacity
- G.Williams The Biopolitics of Chronic Illness: Biology, Power and Personhood
- S.Williams
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