New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions : Assaults on the Lifeworld

Bringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic illness and disability, disability theory, doctor-patient encounters, lifeworld issues and the new genetics. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction: The Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions; Assaults on the Lifeworld....Pages 1-7 Studying the Experience of Chronic Illness through Grounded Theory....Pages 8-36 Medical Sociology and Disability Theory....Pages 37-56 Beyond Models: Understanding the Complexity of Disabled People’s Lives....Pages 57-76 ‘Where the Biological Predominates’: Habitus, Reflexivity and Capital Accrual within the Field of Batten Disease....Pages 77-105 Discerning Biological, Psychological and Social Mechanisms in the Impact of Epilepsy on the Individual: A Framework and Exploration....Pages 106-128 Retheorizing the Clinical Encounter: Normalization Processes and the Corporate Ecologies of Care....Pages 129-145 ‘Chronicity’, Proto-Stories and the Doctor-Patient Relationship....Pages 146-160 Chronic Illness, Self-management and the Rhetoric of Empowerment....Pages 161-179 Understanding Incapacity....Pages 180-204 The Biopolitics of Chronic Illness: Biology, Power and Personhood....Pages 205-224 Back Matter....Pages 225-235 "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