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

by Scambler, Graham; Scambler, Sasha

• ISBN13: 9780230222700
• ISBN10: 0230222706
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

GRAHAM SCAMBLER is Professor of Medical Sociology in the UCL Division of Population Health, University College London, UK. His research interests include health-related stigma, health inequalities, sex worker health and critical theory of health.
 
SASHA SCAMBLER lectures on ageing and oral health, chronic illness and disability theory at King's College London, UK.

Table of Contents

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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