Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: The Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions; Assaults on the Lifeworld; 2 Studying the Experience of Chronic Illness through Grounded Theory; 3 Medical Sociology and Disability Theory; 4 Beyond Models: Understanding the Complexity of Disabled People's Lives; 5 'Where the Biological Predominates': Habitus, Reflexivity and Capital Accrual within the Field of Batten Disease
6 Discerning Biological, Psychological and Social Mechanisms in the Impact of Epilepsy on the Individual: A Framework and Exploration7 Retheorizing the Clinical Encounter: Normalization Processes and the Corporate Ecologies of Care; 8 'Chronicity', Proto-Stories and the Doctor-Patient Relationship; 9 Chronic Illness, Self-management and the Rhetoric of Empowerment; 10 Understanding Incapacity; 11 The Biopolitics of Chronic Illness: Biology, Power and Personhood; Index
Summary
"This book charts the new directions in theory and research in disability studies, giving purpose and shape to the emerging confluence of ideas between traditionally opposed groups"--Provided by publisher
