Chronic Conditions, Fluid States Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness

Chronic Conditions, Fluid Statesexplores 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...

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Main Authors: Manderson, Lenore, Smith-Morris, Carolyn
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: United States Rutgers University Press 2010
Edition:1
Series:Studies in Medical Anthropology
Subjects:
Anthropology
biomedical research
Chronic Conditions
Chronic diseases
chronic illness
Chronic pain
chronicacute divide
chronicity
communities
disability
disease control
disease management
Diseases
editors
families
Fluid States
global settings
globalizing forces
Health
Health Sciences
Illness
illness experience
individuals
influential minds
life-worlds
local
MEDICAL
MEDICAL / Public Health
Medical anthropology
Pain
Public Health
public health discourse
relationship
rising scholars
social research
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Social sciences
life-worlds
Chronic Conditions
disability
individuals
local
public health discourse
disease control
influential minds
rising scholars
relationship
global settings
editors
social research
health
families
biomedical research
disease management
chronicacute divide
chronicity
globalizing forces
chronic illness
medical anthropology
Fluid States
illness experience
communities
ISBN:0813549736, 9780813549736, 9780813547466, 0813547466, 9780813547473, 0813547474
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Summary:Chronic Conditions, Fluid Statesexplores 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.
Bibliography:Bibliography: p. 253-308
Includes index
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ISBN:0813549736
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9780813547466
0813547466
9780813547473
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DOI:10.36019/9780813549736