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Contested Illness in Context - An Interdisciplinary Study in Disease Definition (Paperback)
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Contested Illness in Context - An Interdisciplinary Study in Disease Definition (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
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What makes a disease real? Why is it that patients with chronic
fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia are doubted when they say they are
in pain, and cannot access the same benefits of patient-hood that
others can? What defines the limits of our belief and, ultimately,
compassion, when it comes to disease? These are the questions
approached in this book, which draws upon patients' experiences and
situates them among a diverse set of literatures, from the history
and philosophy of medicine to the sociology of health and disease.
The question of a patient's identity and their understanding of
disease is often assumed to emerge from their relationship with
healthcare, but the case is made here that other, inter-personal
factors are more salient. What a patient with a contested illness
comes up against is not simply a medical categorisation - it is a
prevailing notion of disease across society, and one they struggle
to assimilate themselves into. Contested Illness in Context will
appeal to students and researchers interested in fields such as the
history and philosophy of medicine, the sociology of health and
illness, medical anthropology, or disease and illness generally. It
may also interest patients and doctors who struggle with difficult
medical cases.
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