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UNSPECIFIED (2000) Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS, 22 (1). pp. 40-67. ISSN 0141-9889
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Taking as its point of departure Bury's (1982) concept of chronic illness as biographical disruption, this paper provides a critical assessment of its fortunes since that time. Having 'rescued' the concept from recent postmodern and disability critiques, the paper provides a series of further reflections on its strengths and weaknesses, including the notion of 'normal illness'; the importance of timing and context; the significance of continuity as well, as loss; and the role of biographical disruption itself in the aetiology of illness. This, in turn, provides the basis for a broader set of reflections on the vicissitudes of the biographically embodied self in conditions of late modernity: a situation of chronic reflexivity in which our badies/selves are continually problematised if not pathologised. The paper concludes, given this 'balance sheet', with a discussion of some potentially fruitful lines of future research, including links with the life-events and inequalities literature.
| Item Type: | Journal Item |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Journal or Publication Title: | SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS |
| Publisher: | BLACKWELL PUBL LTD |
| ISSN: | 0141-9889 |
| Date: | January 2000 |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Number of Pages: | 28 |
| Page Range: | pp. 40-67 |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/13757 |
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