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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230222706 ISBN 13: 9780230222700

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

This collection uniquely brings together leading international scholars in medical sociology and disability theory to critically review the sociology of chronic and disabling conditions and disability studies.  Examining the ways which we define, live with, treat and contest the 'assaults on the lifeworld' occasioned by enduring illness and disability, this collection will prove indispensible to all those interested in cutting-edge, innovative scholarship in the field.

About this title

Product Description:

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.

Book Description:

This book examines living with and treating chronic illness and disability, doctor-patient encounters and interaction, and wider issues of social change and the new genetics

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230222706
• ISBN 13: 9780230222700
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Scambler G.