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Title Reframing disability and quality of life : a global perspective / Narelle Warren, Lenore Manderson, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 243 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Social indicators research series, 1387-6570 ; v. 52
Social indicators research series ; v. 52.
Contents Reframing Disability and Quality of Life: Contextual Nuances / Narelle Warren, Lenore Manderson -- Uncertainty, Vulnerability, and Isolation: Factors Framing Quality of Life with Aphasia in a South African Township / Carol Legg, Claire Penn -- Disability and Well-Being in Northern Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne -- The Dignity of Children: How to Evaluate Bodies' (Im)Permeability / Rafael Wainer -- Who, How, and What? Quality of Life and Psychosocial Cancer Research / Helle Ploug Hansen, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen -- Quality of Life and End-of-Life Decisions After Brain Injury / Athena Demertzi, Olivia Gosseries -- Transforming Social Disability into Normality: Medical Discourses on Kidney Transplantation in Cyprus / Costas S. Constantinou -- Spinal Cord Injury, Sport, and the Narrative Possibilities of Posttraumatic Growth / Andrew C. Sparkes, Brett Smith -- Narrating a Return to Work After Spinal Cord Injury / Carolyn Smith-Morris, Gilberto Lopez -- Sports, Disability, and the Reframing of the Post-injury Soldier / Seth D. Messinger -- "Caring for" and "Caring About": Embedded Interdependence and Quality of Life / Lenore Manderson, Narelle Warren -- Disability and Caregivers' Inability Among Immigrant Australians / Victoria Team, Milica Markovic -- The Impact of Government on Quality of Life for People with Disabilities in the United States and Guatemala / Erica Skogebo McFadden
Summary Chronic conditions and physical impairments can take a psychological, social and economic toll, and are assumed to diminish a person's quality of life. But 'quality of life' is an ambiguous phrase. Some use the term as an indicator for successful and high quality health services, including good access to medical attention and surgery; others use the term to argue against medical interventions that are seen to prolong life for its own sake. The meaning of 'quality of life' varies from person to person, and so is contextually fluid: it may be shaped by health status, presence or absence of pain, happiness and acceptance, or fluctuations in social and economic status. The authors in this book offer a unique and timely collection of papers that address many of these issues, in the context of the lived experience and subjective wellbeing of people with a range of medical conditions from very different cultural and economic environments. In doing so, they address the limits of psychometric measurement and the challenges in generating information about quality of life and wellbeing at both individual and population levels. Authors confront the obstacles of interpreting health outcomes among people of different cultures, ages, genders and health statuses, so supplementing quantitative data with rich ethnographic discussion and illustrating the value of mixed methods research. This book is fundamental to the emerging debates related to individual health outcomes. In striving to understand the broader contextual factors of chronic illness and disability, this volume will contribute to our knowledge of the services, support systems and infrastructure that provide a higher quality of life to people, regardless of their physical health, capability and functioning
Analysis Social sciences
Quality of Life
Psychology, clinical
Health Psychology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record; title from online title page (Ebook Library, viewed January 22, 2014)
Subject Sociology of disability.
Quality of life.
Quality of Life
quality of life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Quality of life
Sociology of disability
Behinderung
Krankheit
Lebensqualität
Form Electronic book
Author Warren, Narelle.
Manderson, Lenore
ISBN 9789400730182
9400730187