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Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness

By Lenore Manderson , Carolyn Smith-Morris (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
978-0813547473
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2167095 bytes)
Series
Studies in Medical Anthropology
Pages
333\333
Time added
2019-04-20 08:45:30

Description

Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the field, address the concept of chronicity, an idea used to explain individual and local life-worlds, question public health discourse, and consider the relationship between health and the globalizing forces that shape it.

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