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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810140803321

Titolo

Chronicity enquiries : making sense of chronic illness / / edited by Zhenyi Li and Sara Rieder Bennett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-84888-150-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Probing the boundaries., Making sense of hub

Disciplina

616.044

Soggetti

Chronic diseases

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Zhenyi Li and Sara Rieder Bennett -- Chronic Illness Interpreted in ‘Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor’: Why Is It Neglected? / Zhenyi Li -- Sublime Illness: Friedrich Schiller’s Chronic Lung Disease and the Concept of the Sublime / Carmen Bartl -- Mandated Motherhood: Biopsychosocial Aspects of Coping with Infertility / Sara Rieder Bennett -- Psychosocial Support in Multiple Sclerosis: The Confidant Relationship Explored / Jane Grose , Jenny Freeman and Heather Skirton -- Fear of a Living Death: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Chronicity, Terminal Illness and Euthanasia / Anne Ryan , Mandy Morgan and Antonia Lyons -- Health and Illness Representations in Patients with Rheumatic Disease / Céu Sá and Abílio Oliveira -- Managing Multiple Chronic Illnesses: Narratives of Puerto Rican Latinos Living in the U.S. / Louise Reagan -- Children’s Experience of Living with Cancer / Lígia Lima and Marina Lemos -- Conquering AIDS through Narrative: LongLife Positive HIV Stories / Felicity Horne -- Lifting the Lid of Pandora’s Box: Alzheimer’s Disease in the Movies / Amir Cohen-Shalev and Esther-Lee Marcus -- Passing Strange: Illness, Shame and Performance / Brenda Foley -- Depression, Disgrace and Categorical Distinctions: The Construction of a Stigma-Resistant Self in Published Affective Disorder Narratives / Peta Cox -- Improvisation: Five Capacities for Coping with Trauma and Loss in Chronic Illness / Patricia Fennell , John Esposito and Anne Fantauzzi -- Does Social Support and Self-Esteem Determine Depression in



Chronically Ill Patients? / Zaeema Riaz , Riaz Ahmad and Sarwat Jahan Khanam -- Illness or Impairment? Human Frailty as a Guiding Axis: A Case Study Involving Young Cancer Sufferers in São Paulo, Brazil / Tatiana Piccardi -- Is the New Care Planning Approach to Long Term Conditions Suitable for All Patients? The Case of Diabetes / Sally J. Giles and Penny Rhodes -- General Practitioner Perceptions of Chronic Illness Place People Somewhere between Health and Illness / Marjan Kljakovic.