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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
About this book
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.
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Yes, you can access New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions by G. Scambler in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Civil Rights in Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction: The Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions; Assaults on the Lifeworld
- 2 Studying the Experience of Chronic Illness through Grounded Theory
- 3 Medical Sociology and Disability Theory
- 4 Beyond Models: Understanding the Complexity of Disabled People’s Lives
- 5 ‘Where the Biological Predominates’: Habitus, Reflexivity and Capital Accrual within the Field of Batten Disease
- 6 Discerning Biological, Psychological and Social Mechanisms in the Impact of Epilepsy on the Individual: A Framework and Exploration
- 7 Retheorizing the Clinical Encounter: Normalization Processes and the Corporate Ecologies of Care
- 8 ‘Chronicity’, Proto-Stories and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
- 9 Chronic Illness, Self-management and the Rhetoric of Empowerment
- 10 Understanding Incapacity
- 11 The Biopolitics of Chronic Illness: Biology, Power and Personhood
- Index