Title: Chronic conditions, fluid states : chronicity and the anthropology of Illness /
Authors: Manderson, Lenore; Smith-Morris, Carolyn, 1966-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Medical anthropology; Chronic diseases; Chronic pain; Chronic Disease; Anthropology
Abstract: "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."--Pub. desc.
Contents: Introduction : Chronicity and the experience of illness / Lenore Manderson and Carolyn Smith-Morris -- The chronicity of life, the acuteness of diagnosis / Carolyn Smith-Morris -- Globalizing the chronicities of modernity : diabetes and the metabolic syndrome / Dennis Wiedman -- Is "chronicity" inevitable for psychotic illness? Studying heterogeneity in the course of schizophrenia in Yogakarta, Indonesia / Byron J. Good [and others] -- Male infertility, chronicity, and the plight of Palestinian men in Israel and Lebanon / Marcia C. Inhorn and Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli -- "Half a woman" : embodied disruptions and ideas of gender among Australian women / Lenore Manderson -- Ecuadorian women's narratives of lupus, suffering, and vulnerability / Ann Miles -- Why women don't die in childbirth : maternal survivorship in Badakhshan, Tajikistan / Kylea Laina Liese -- Chronic illness and the assemblages of time in multilisted encounters / Steve Ferzacca -- Chronicity and AIDS in three South African communities / Carl Kendall and Zelee Hill -- Disability and dysappearance : negotiating physical and social risk with cystic fibrosis / Ron Maynard -- Caring for children with special healthcare needs : "once we got there, it was fine" / Elisa J. Sobo -- Chronic conditions, health, and well-being in global contexts : occupational therapy in conversation with critical medical anthropology / Gelya Frank, Carolyn Baum, and Mary Law -- Afterword : Chronicity-time, space, and culture / Arthur Kleinman and Rachel Hall-Clifford.