UID:
edocfu_9958353195402883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781442687738
Content:
Contesting Illness offers valuable insights into the assumptions, practices, and interactions that shape illness in the twenty-first century.‹/p
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Contributors --
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1. Power and Illness: Authority, Bodies, and Context --
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2. Claiming a Disability Benefit as Contesting Social Citizenship --
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3. Workers’ Compensation and Controversial Illnesses --
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4. Managing Workplace Depression: Contesting the Contours of Emerging Policy in the Workplace --
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5. Contesting Coronary Candidacy: Reframing Risk Modification in Coronary Heart Disease --
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6. Hepatitis C and the Dawn of Biological Citizenship: Unravelling the Policy Implications --
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7. Tracing Contours of Contestation in Narratives about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome --
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8. Cancer as a Contested Illness: Seeking Help amid Treatment --
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9. Edging Embodiment and Embodying Categories: Reading Bodies Marked with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a Contested Illness --
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10. Managing the Monstrous Feminine: The Role of Premenstrual Syndrome in the Subjectification of Women --
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11. Resisting an Illness Label: Disability, Impairment, and Illness --
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12. The Race and Class Politics of Anorexia Nervosa: Unravelling White, Middle-Class Standards in Representations of Eating Problems --
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13. ‘More Labels Than a Jam Jar’: The Gendered Dynamics of Diagnosis for Girls and Women with Autism --
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14. The Female Sexual Dysfunction Debate: Different ‘Problems,’ New Drugs – More Pressures? --
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15. Moving from Settled to Contested: Transformations in the Anatomo-Politics of Breast Cancer, 1970–1990 --
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16. Environments, Bodies, and the Cultural Imaginary: Imagining Ecological Impairment --
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17. Contestation and Medicalization --
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Index
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442687738
URL:
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442687738
