Contesting illness : processes and practices
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802093653 (bound)
- ISBN: 0802093655 (bound)
- ISBN: 9780802095121 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0802095127 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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xvi, 347 p. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2008.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Power and illness: authority, bodies, and context -- Claiming a disability benefit as contesting social citizenship -- Workers' compensation and controversial illnesses -- Managing workplace depression: contesting the contours of emerging policy in the workplace -- Contesting coronary candidacy: reframing risk modification in coronary heart disease -- Hepatitis C and the dawn of biological citizenship: unravelling the policy implications -- Tracing contours of contestation in narratives about chronic fatigue syndrome -- Cancer as a contested illness: seeking help amid treatment -- Edging embodiment and embodying categories: reading bodies marked with myalgic encephalomyelitis as a contested illness -- Managing the monstrous feminine: the role of premenstrual syndrome in the subjectification of women -- Resisting an illness label: disability, impairment, and illness -- The race and class politics of anorexia nervosa: unravelling white, middle-class standards in representations of eating problems -- 'More labels than a jam jar': the gendered dynamics of diagnosis for girls and women with autism -- The female sexual dysfunction debate: different 'problems', new drugs--more pressures? -- Moving from settled to contested: transformations in the anatomo-politics of breast cancer, 1970-1990 -- Environments, bodies, and the cultural imaginary: imagining ecological impairment -- Contestation and medicalization. |
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Subject: | Chronic diseases -- Government policy Chronic diseases -- Social aspects Chronically ill Chronically ill -- Care Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Lansdowne Library | RA 644.5 C66 2008 (Text) | 26040002823975 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |