New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions Assaults on the Lifeworld

, by Scambler, Graham; Scambler, Sasha

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ISBN: 9780230222700 | 0230222706
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/15/2010

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This book charts the new directions in theory and research in disability studies, giving purpose and shape to the emerging confluence of ideas between traditionally opposed groups.

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List of Tables	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction: The Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions; Assaults on the Lifeworld	p. 1
Studying the Experience of Chronic Illness through Grounded Theory	p. 8
Medical Sociology and Disability Theory	p. 37
Beyond Models: Understanding the Complexity of Disabled People's Lives	p. 57
'Where the Biological Predominates': Habitus, Reflexivity and Capital Accrual within the Field of Batten Disease	p. 77
Discerning Biological, Psychological and Social Mechanisms in the Impact of Epilepsy on the Individual: A Framework and Exploration	p. 106
Retheorizing the Clinical Encounter: Normalization Processes and the Corporate Ecologies of Care	p. 161
'Chronicity', Proto-Stories and the Doctor-Patient Relationship	p. 146
Chronic Illness, Self-management and the Rhetoric of Empowerment	p. 161
Understanding Incapacity	p. 180
The Biopolitics of Chronic Illness: Biology, Power and Personhood	p. 205
Index	p. 225
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New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions Assaults on the Lifeworld

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Author Biography

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