A Constant Burden: The Reconstitution of Family Life

ISBN-13: 9780815385653 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 254 str.

Margaret Voysey Paun

Opis

Published in 1975, A Constant Burden was truly ground-breaking in the field of medical sociology as a study of families with a disabled child; based on an analysis of interviews with parents on the effects of their child's disability on their family life. Over thirty years later this revised edition gives new life to this important work.

Spis treści

Contents: New introduction; Introduction; Underlying pathology and apparent normality; Normal appearances and official morality; Methodology: some autobiography; The families with a disabled child; Definitions of the disabled child as rational constructions: social contexts and common sense; The presentation of normal parenthood: private activities and public performances; The legitimation of suffering; Acceptance and adjustment; References; Index.