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The relationship between power and illness is the subject of limited discussion despite it being one of the most important issues in health-related policies and services. In an effort to correct this, Contesting Illness engages critically with processes through which the meanings and effects of illn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Teghtsoonian, Katherine (Editor ), Moss, Pamela, 1960- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Chronically ill > Care.
Chronically ill.
Chronic diseases > Social aspects.
Chronic diseases > Psychological aspects.
Chronic diseases.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Maladies chroniques.
Malades chroniques > Soins.
Malades chroniques.
Maladies chroniques > Aspect psychologique.
Maladies chroniques > Politique gouvernementale.
Maladies chroniques > Aspect social.
Chronic Disease
Chronic Disease > psychology
Chronic diseases > Government policy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Power and Illness: Authority, Bodies, and Context / Pamela Moss And Katherine Teghtsoonian
  • 2. Claiming a Disability Benefit as Contesting Social Citizenship / Michael J. Prince
  • 3. Workers' Compensation and Controversial Illnesses / Katherine Lippel
  • 4. Managing Workplace Depression: Contesting the Contours of Emerging Policy in the Workplace / Katherine Teghtsoonian
  • 5. Contesting Coronary Candidacy: Reframining Risk Modification in Coronary Heart Disease / Jan Angus
  • 6. Hepatitis C and the Dawn of Biological Citizenship: Unravelling the Policy Implications / Michael Orsini
  • 7. Tracing Contours of Contestation in Narratives about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Pia H. Bolow
  • 8. Cancer as a Contested Illness: Seeking Help amid Treatment / Mary Ellen Purkis And Catherine Van Mossel
  • 9. Edging Embodiment and Embodying Categories: Reading Bodies Marked with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a Contested Illness / Pamela Moss
  • 10. Managing the Monstrous Feminine: The Role of Premenstrual Syndrome in the Subjectification of Women / Jane M. Ussher
  • 11. Resisting an Illness Label: Disability, Impairment, and Illness / Sharon Dale Stone
  • 12. The Race and Class Politics of Anorexia Nervosa: Unravelling White, Middle-Class Standards in Representations of Eating Problems / Helen Gremillion
  • 13. 'More Labels Than a Jam Jar': The Gendered Dynamics of Diagnosis for Girls and Women with Autism / Joyce Davidson
  • 14. The Female Sexual Dysfunction Debate: Different 'Problems, ' New Drugs
  • More Pressures? / Annie Potts
  • 15. Moving from Settled to Contested: Transformations in the Anatomo-Politics of Breast Cancer, 1970-1990 / Maren Klawiter
  • 16. Environments, Bodies, and the Cultural Imaginary: Imagining Ecological Impairment / Steve Kroll-Smith And Joshua Kelley
  • 17. Contestation and Medicalization / Peter Conrad And Cheryl Stults
  • Index.

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