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Contesting illness : processes and practices / / edited by Pamela Moss and Katherine Teghtsoonian
Contesting illness : processes and practices / / edited by Pamela Moss and Katherine Teghtsoonian
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (364 p.)
Disciplina 616/.044
Soggetto topico Chronic diseases - Social aspects
Chronic diseases - Government policy
Chronic diseases - Psychological aspects
Chronically ill
Chronically ill - Care
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-4426-8773-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Power and Illness: Authority, Bodies, and Context / Moss, Pamela / Teghtsoonian, Katherine -- 2. Claiming a Disability Benefit as Contesting Social Citizenship / Prince, Michael J. -- 3. Workers' Compensation and Controversial Illnesses / Lippel, Katherine -- 4. Managing Workplace Depression: Contesting the Contours of Emerging Policy in the Workplace / Teghtsoonian, Katherine -- 5. Contesting Coronary Candidacy: Reframing Risk Modification in Coronary Heart Disease / Angus, Jan -- 6. Hepatitis C and the Dawn of Biological Citizenship: Unravelling the Policy Implications / Orsini, Michael -- 7. Tracing Contours of Contestation in Narratives about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Bülow, Pia H. -- 8. Cancer as a Contested Illness: Seeking Help amid Treatment / Purkis, Mary Ellen / Mossel, Catherine Van -- 9. Edging Embodiment and Embodying Categories: Reading Bodies Marked with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a Contested Illness / Moss, Pamela -- 10. Managing the Monstrous Feminine: The Role of Premenstrual Syndrome in the Subjectification of Women / Ussher, Jane M. -- 11. Resisting an Illness Label: Disability, Impairment, and Illness / Stone, Sharon Dale -- 12. The Race and Class Politics of Anorexia Nervosa: Unravelling White, Middle-Class Standards in Representations of Eating Problems / Gremillion, Helen -- 13. 'More Labels Than a Jam Jar': The Gendered Dynamics of Diagnosis for Girls and Women with Autism / Davidson, Joyce -- 14. The Female Sexual Dysfunction Debate: Different 'Problems,' New Drugs - More Pressures? / Potts, Annie -- 15. Moving from Settled to Contested: Transformations in the Anatomo-Politics of Breast Cancer, 1970-1990 / Klawiter, Maren -- 16. Environments, Bodies, and the Cultural Imaginary: Imagining Ecological Impairment / Kroll-Smith, Steve / Kelley, Joshua -- 17. Contestation and Medicalization / Conrad, Peter / Stults, Cheryl -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910456806703321
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008
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Contesting illness : processes and practices / / edited by Pamela Moss and Katherine Teghtsoonian
Contesting illness : processes and practices / / edited by Pamela Moss and Katherine Teghtsoonian
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (364 p.)
Disciplina 616/.044
Soggetto topico Chronic diseases - Social aspects
Chronic diseases - Government policy
Chronic diseases - Psychological aspects
Chronically ill
Chronically ill - Care
ISBN 1-4426-9205-7
1-4426-8773-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910781121803321
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008
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Contesting illness : processes and practices / / edited by Pamela Moss and Katherine Teghtsoonian
Contesting illness : processes and practices / / edited by Pamela Moss and Katherine Teghtsoonian
Pubbl/distr/stampa Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (364 p.)
Disciplina 616/.044
Soggetto topico Chronic diseases - Social aspects
Chronic diseases - Government policy
Chronic diseases - Psychological aspects
Chronically ill
Chronically ill - Care
ISBN 1-4426-9205-7
1-4426-8773-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 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.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910815448803321
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2008
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Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa : Social and historical perspectives / / edited by Megan Vaughan, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Marissa Mika
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa : Social and historical perspectives / / edited by Megan Vaughan, Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Marissa Mika
Pubbl/distr/stampa London : , : UCL Press, , 2021
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 614.0
Soggetto topico Chronic diseases - Social aspects
ISBN 1-78735-704-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910433157203321
London : , : UCL Press, , 2021
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Managing chronicity in unequal states : ethnographic perspectives on caring / / edited by Laura Montesi, Melania Calestani
Managing chronicity in unequal states : ethnographic perspectives on caring / / edited by Laura Montesi, Melania Calestani
Pubbl/distr/stampa London : , : UCL Press, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xxiii, 247 pages)
Disciplina 306.461
Collana Embodying inequalities
Soggetto topico Chronic diseases - Social aspects
Chronically ill - Mental health
Chronically ill - Social conditions
ISBN 1-80008-028-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Defining and defying chronicity -- Care and the politics of deservingness -- Structure of the book -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 1 A house of cards: Chronicity, care packages and a 'good life' -- Background -- Methods -- Theoretical framework: Temporality, ethics and care -- Clarissa's struggle and the house of cards -- Temporal/spatial reconfiguration: a discussion -- Relationality: a discussion Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 (Un)Deservingness and disregard: Chronicity, hospice and possibilities for care on the American periphery -- Deserving and undeserving of care -- (Un)Deservingness, attention and disregard -- Shaping a landscape of care through disregard -- Disregarded costs and the disappearance of medical equipment -- Claims to deservingness and bureaucratic mechanisms of disregard -- Durable medical equipment 'within reach' -- Snowbirds -- 'The only way to be heard': Inaudibility and absent complaints -- Ms Donovan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References 3 Publicly privatised: Relative care support and the neoliberal reform in Finland -- Introduction -- Two facets of privatisation in the care system -- Relative caregivers in Archipelago Town and municipal support -- Families, relatives and caregiving practices in Archipelago Town -- Struggling with closed doors -- The professionalism of relative care -- The difference between relative caregivers and care workers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 The 'hassle' of 'good' care in dementia: Negotiating relatedness in the navigation of bureaucratic systems of support -- Introduction 'Official' paperwork -- The fuss and trust of relatedness -- 'Getting it all sorted': (Mis)adventures in bureaucratic hassle -- The state as a bad relative -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Assemblages of care around albinism: Kin-based networks and (in)dependence in contemporary Tanzania -- Introduction -- Multiple assemblages of care around people with albinism -- The reduction of institutional care and the 'NGOisation' of the nation state -- Kin-based care and humanitarian discourses in Ilula: Florentina's experiences (In)dependence in Dar es Salaam: Daudi's self-care, care for and care about others -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 6 Alcoholism and evangelical healing in Indigenous Mexico: Chronicity and care at the margins of the state -- From comorbidity to syndemics of alcoholism and marginality -- Five centuries of alcoholisation -- Drinking at the margins -- Care for whom? Drinking patterns and the possibility of care -- Medical (un)care: Governmental health providers -- Evangelicals and alcohol: Healing within the community -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References.
Altri titoli varianti Managing Chronicity in Unequal States
Record Nr. UNINA-9910510589403321
London : , : UCL Press, , [2021]
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Managing chronicity in unequal states : ethnographic perspectives on caring / / edited by Laura Montesi and Melania Calestani
Managing chronicity in unequal states : ethnographic perspectives on caring / / edited by Laura Montesi and Melania Calestani
Pubbl/distr/stampa London, England : , : UCL Press, , 2021
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xxiv, 248 pages) : digital file(s)
Disciplina 362.1
Collana Embodying inequalities
Soggetto topico Chronic diseases - Social aspects
Chronically ill - Social conditions
Chronically ill - Mental health
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910512204903321
London, England : , : UCL Press, , 2021
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Managing chronicity in unequal states : ethnographic perspectives on caring / / edited by Laura Montesi and Melania Calestani
Managing chronicity in unequal states : ethnographic perspectives on caring / / edited by Laura Montesi and Melania Calestani
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa London, England : , : UCL Press, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (248 pages)
Disciplina 362.1
Soggetto topico Chronic diseases - Social aspects
Chronically ill - Social conditions
ISBN 1-80008-031-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Defining and defying chronicity -- Care and the politics of deservingness -- Structure of the book -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 1 A house of cards: Chronicity, care packages and a 'good life' -- Background -- Methods -- Theoretical framework: Temporality, ethics and care -- Clarissa's struggle and the house of cards -- Temporal/spatial reconfiguration: a discussion -- Relationality: a discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 (Un)Deservingness and disregard: Chronicity, hospice and possibilities for care on the American periphery -- Deserving and undeserving of care -- (Un)Deservingness, attention and disregard -- Shaping a landscape of care through disregard -- Disregarded costs and the disappearance of medical equipment -- Claims to deservingness and bureaucratic mechanisms of disregard -- Durable medical equipment 'within reach' -- Snowbirds -- 'The only way to be heard': Inaudibility and absent complaints -- Ms Donovan -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Publicly privatised: Relative care support and the neoliberal reform in Finland -- Introduction -- Two facets of privatisation in the care system -- Relative caregivers in Archipelago Town and municipal support -- Families, relatives and caregiving practices in Archipelago Town -- Struggling with closed doors -- The professionalism of relative care -- The difference between relative caregivers and care workers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 The 'hassle' of 'good' care in dementia: Negotiating relatedness in the navigation of bureaucratic systems of support -- Introduction -- 'Official' paperwork -- The fuss and trust of relatedness.
'Getting it all sorted': (Mis)adventures in bureaucratic hassle -- The state as a bad relative -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Assemblages of care around albinism: Kin-based networks and (in)dependence in contemporary Tanzania -- Introduction -- Multiple assemblages of care around people with albinism -- The reduction of institutional care and the 'NGOisation' of the nation state -- Kin-based care and humanitarian discourses in Ilula: Florentina's experiences -- (In)dependence in Dar es Salaam: Daudi's self-care, care for and care about others -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 6 Alcoholism and evangelical healing in Indigenous Mexico: Chronicity and care at the margins of the state -- From comorbidity to syndemics of alcoholism and marginality -- Five centuries of alcoholisation -- Drinking at the margins -- Care for whom? Drinking patterns and the possibility of care -- Medical (un)care: Governmental health providers -- Evangelicals and alcohol: Healing within the community -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 7 When 'care' leads to 'chronicity': Exploring the changing contours of care of homeless people living on the streets in India -- Homelessness, mental health care and chronicity -- Street beats: Differentiating the 'homeless' and the 'homeless mentally ill' -- Medicines and employment as the mainstays of 'care' -- Chronic illness or chronic suffering? Medical, social and experiential understandings of homelessness -- Caregiver-social worker alliance: 'Chronicity' as the ground for care -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 'My body is my laboratory': Care experiments among persons who use drugs in Downtown Montreal -- Fieldwork and research strategy -- Research participants' background, public policies and deservingness -- Street-level psychiatric drug circulation -- Para-pharmacologists.
Caring for oneself: Practices of psychiatric drug use -- Downing from a high -- Managing withdrawal -- Detoxing from drug use -- Medicating mental health problems -- Caring for others: The moral value of psychiatric medication -- Deservingness, chronicity and care: Final reflections -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 9 'These doctors don't believe in PANS': Confronting uncertainty and a collapsing model of medical care -- Introduction -- A brief description of PANS -- Ethnographic research -- Making sense of the unknown -- Uncertainties, incompetence or a problem of medicine? -- A collapsing model of medical care, inadequate social welfare and family destruction -- Conclusion: Diagnoses as uncertainty, chronicity and hope for the future -- Notes -- References -- 10 Chronic living in zombieland: Care in between survival and death -- Introduction -- Living in chronicity -- living with affordances -- The pharmaceutical embrace -- Judicialising the suffering body -- Final remarks -- Notes -- References -- Afterword -- Cartographies of chronicity -- Waymarking entanglements -- Making and unmaking of worlds: 'Becoming' with chronicity -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910774786303321
London, England : , : UCL Press, , [2021]
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Negotiating health care [[electronic resource] ] : the social context of chronic illness / / Sally E. Thorne
Negotiating health care [[electronic resource] ] : the social context of chronic illness / / Sally E. Thorne
Autore Thorne Sally E (Sally Elizabeth), <1951->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Newbury Park, Calif., : SAGE, c1993
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (275 p.)
Disciplina 362.1
Soggetto topico Chronic diseases - Social aspects
Chronic diseases - Psychological aspects
Chronically ill - Public opinion
Chronically ill - Attitudes
Chronically ill - Medical care - Public opinion
Medical personnel and patient
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-4833-2633-0
1-4522-5398-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto part I. The individual experience -- part II. The interpersonal experience -- part III. The institutional experience.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910479961203321
Thorne Sally E (Sally Elizabeth), <1951->  
Newbury Park, Calif., : SAGE, c1993
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Negotiating health care [[electronic resource] ] : the social context of chronic illness / / Sally E. Thorne
Negotiating health care [[electronic resource] ] : the social context of chronic illness / / Sally E. Thorne
Autore Thorne Sally E (Sally Elizabeth), <1951->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Newbury Park, Calif., : SAGE, c1993
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (x, 264 p.)
Disciplina 362.1
Soggetto topico Chronic diseases - Social aspects
Chronic diseases - Psychological aspects
Chronically ill - Public opinion
Chronically ill - Attitudes
Chronically ill - Medical care - Public opinion
Medical personnel and patient
ISBN 1-4833-2633-0
1-4522-5398-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto part I. The individual experience -- part II. The interpersonal experience -- part III. The institutional experience.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910791076603321
Thorne Sally E (Sally Elizabeth), <1951->  
Newbury Park, Calif., : SAGE, c1993
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Negotiating health care : the social context of chronic illness / / Sally E. Thorne
Negotiating health care : the social context of chronic illness / / Sally E. Thorne
Autore Thorne Sally E (Sally Elizabeth), <1951->
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Newbury Park, Calif., : SAGE, c1993
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (x, 264 p.)
Disciplina 362.1
Soggetto topico Chronic diseases - Social aspects
Chronic diseases - Psychological aspects
Chronically ill - Public opinion
Chronically ill - Attitudes
Chronically ill - Medical care - Public opinion
Medical personnel and patient
ISBN 1-4833-2633-0
1-4522-5398-6
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto part I. The individual experience -- part II. The interpersonal experience -- part III. The institutional experience.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910822240803321
Thorne Sally E (Sally Elizabeth), <1951->  
Newbury Park, Calif., : SAGE, c1993
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