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Chronic Conditions, Fluid States : Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness / ed. by Lenore Manderson, Carolyn Smith-Morris.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Medical AnthropologyPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 1Content type:
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  • 9780813547466
  • 9780813549736
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4/61 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface And Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Chronicity and the Experience of Illness -- Part One. The Idea Of Chronicity -- 1. The Chronicity of Life, the Acuteness of Diagnosis -- 2. Globalizing the Chronicities of Modernity: Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome -- 3. Is "Chronicity" Inevitable for Psychotic Illness?: Studying Heterogeneity in the Course of Schizophrenia in Yogyakarta, Indonesia -- Part Two. Gender And The Experience Of Illness -- 4. Male Infertility, Chronicity, and the Plight of Palestinian Men in Israel and Lebanon -- 5. "Half a Woman": Embodied Disruptions and Ideas of Gender among Australian Women -- 6. Ecuadorian Women's Narratives of Lupus, Suffering, and Vulnerability -- 7. Why Women Don't Die in Childbirth: Maternal Survivorship in Badakhshan, Tajikistan -- Part Three. The Clinical Interface -- 8. Chronic Illness and the Assemblages of Time in Multisited Encounters -- 9. Chronicity and AIDS in Three South African Communities -- 10. Disability and Dysappearance: Negotiating Physical and Social Risk with Cystic Fibrosis -- 11. Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs: "Once We Got There, It Was Fine" -- 12. Chronic Conditions, Health, and Well-Being in Global Contexts: Occupational Therapy in Conversation with Critical Medical Anthropology -- Afterword: Chronicity-Time, Space, and Culture -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface And Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Chronicity and the Experience of Illness -- Part One. The Idea Of Chronicity -- 1. The Chronicity of Life, the Acuteness of Diagnosis -- 2. Globalizing the Chronicities of Modernity: Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome -- 3. Is "Chronicity" Inevitable for Psychotic Illness?: Studying Heterogeneity in the Course of Schizophrenia in Yogyakarta, Indonesia -- Part Two. Gender And The Experience Of Illness -- 4. Male Infertility, Chronicity, and the Plight of Palestinian Men in Israel and Lebanon -- 5. "Half a Woman": Embodied Disruptions and Ideas of Gender among Australian Women -- 6. Ecuadorian Women's Narratives of Lupus, Suffering, and Vulnerability -- 7. Why Women Don't Die in Childbirth: Maternal Survivorship in Badakhshan, Tajikistan -- Part Three. The Clinical Interface -- 8. Chronic Illness and the Assemblages of Time in Multisited Encounters -- 9. Chronicity and AIDS in Three South African Communities -- 10. Disability and Dysappearance: Negotiating Physical and Social Risk with Cystic Fibrosis -- 11. Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs: "Once We Got There, It Was Fine" -- 12. Chronic Conditions, Health, and Well-Being in Global Contexts: Occupational Therapy in Conversation with Critical Medical Anthropology -- Afterword: Chronicity-Time, Space, and Culture -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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