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Chronic Illness, Vulnerability and Social Work - Autoimmunity and the contemporary disease experience (Hardcover)
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Chronic Illness, Vulnerability and Social Work - Autoimmunity and the contemporary disease experience (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Social Work
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Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological
significance, there has been less engagement in social work and
social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and
disease. This innovative volume redresses the balance by exploring
chronic illness and social work, through the specific lens of
autoimmunity, engaging in wider debates around vulnerability,
resistance and the lived experience of ongoing ill-health. Moving
beyond existing conceptualisations of vulnerability as an issue of
mental distress, ageing, child protection and poverty, Price and
Walker demonstrate the role that society has to play in actively
engaging the physical body, rather than working around and through
it. The book focuses on auto-immune conditions such as lupus,
multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma.
Conditions like these allow for an exploration of the materiality
of illness which exacerbates social and economic vulnerability and
may precipitate personal and social crises, requiring a variety of
interventions and support. The risks and challenges associated with
chronic illness include disruptions to a sense of self and
identity, altered relationships and the renegotiation of roles and
responsibilities in a variety of relationships in addition to an
economic impact, with the potential for disruption to employment
status and financial insecurity. This text opens up a range of
debates around some of the central concerns of the social work
profession, including vulnerability, ill-health, and independence.
It will be of interest to scholars and students of social work,
nursing, disability studies, medicine and the social sciences.
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