Work and Unseen Chronic Illness: Silent Voices

by Vickers,Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780415243476
• ISBN10: 0415243475
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

There are a growing number of working adults affected by chronic health conditions that may be largely invisible to those around them. In this book, the author explores the 'silent' problem of unseen illness at work. The author employs qualitative research methods to challenge the idea that if you look well, you must be well. While demonstrating the effectiveness of this controversial methodology, she uses it to expose the voices of a group of marginalized workplace actors who have hitherto remained unheard.

Table of Contents

Foreword	viii
Acknowledgements	x
Prologue: A journey begins	xii
Introduction: The authentic writer	1	(10)
A silent problem	11	(18)
An insider's methodological journey	29	(11)
Doing research - from the inside	40	(18)
A passage of trauma	58	(14)
Organisational fringe dwellers	72	(21)
Careerist concerns	93	(19)
Surviving	112	(20)
Notes from a survivor witness	132	(13)
Epilogue: A pause ...	145	(7)
Notes	152	(28)
References	180	(19)
Name index	199	(6)
Subject index	205