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Chronic illness as biographical disruption or biographical disruption as chronic illness? Reflections on a core concept
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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.
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Abstract
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 | ||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
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Journal or Publication Title: | SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS | ||||
Publisher: | BLACKWELL PUBL LTD | ||||
ISSN: | 0141-9889 | ||||
Official Date: | January 2000 | ||||
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Volume: | 22 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 28 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 40-67 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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