Chronic Conditions, Fluid States

by Manderson, Lenore; Smith-morris, Carolyn; Kleinman, Arthur (AFT); Hall-clifford, Rachel (AFT); Baum, Carolyn, Ph.D. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780813547473
• ISBN10: 0813547474
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-06
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Chronic Conditions, Fluid Statesexplores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the field, address the concept of chronicity, an idea used to explain individual and local life-worlds, question public health discourse, and consider the relationship between health and the globalizing forces that shape it.

Author Biography

Lenore Manderson is a professor of medical anthropology with appointments in the faculties of medicine, nursing and health sciences, and arts at Monash University, Australia. Her books include Global Health Policy, Local Realities and Retbinking Wellbeing.
Carolyn Smith-Morris is an associate professor in the department of anthropology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She is the author of Diabetes among the Pima: Stories of Survival.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Chronicity and the Experience of Illness	p. 1
The Idea of Chronicity
The Chronicity of Life, the Acuteness of Diagnosis	p. 21
Globalizing the Chronicities of Modernity: Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome	p. 38
Is "Chronicity" Inevitable for Psychotic Illness?: Studying Heterogeneity in the Course of Schizophrenia in Yogyakarta, Indonesia	p. 54
Gender and the Experience of Illness
Male Infertility, Chronicity, and the Plight of Palestinian Men in Israel and Lebanon	p. 77
"Half a Woman": Embodied Disruptions and Ideas of Gender among Australian Women	p. 96
Ecuadorian Women's Narratives of Lupus, Suffering, and Vulnerability	p. 113
Why Women Don't Die in Childbirth: Maternal Survivorship in Badakhshan, Tajikistan	p. 131
The Clinical Interface
Chronic Illness and the Assemblages of Time in Multisited Encounters	p. 157
Chronicity and AIDS in Three South African Communities	p. 175
Disability and Dysappearance: Negotiating Physical and Social Risk with Cystic Fibrosis	p. 195
Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs: "Once We Got There, It Was Fine"	p. 212
Chronic Conditions, Health, and Well-Being in Global Contexts: Occupational Therapy in Conversation with Critical Medical Anthropology	p. 230
Afterword: Chronicity-Time, Space, and Culture	p. 247
Bibliography	p. 253
Contributors	p. 309
Index	p. 315
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