Chronic Illness, Vulnerability and Social Work: Autoimmunity and the Contemporary Disease Experience

ISBN-13: 9781138494558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 168 str.

Liz Price; Liz Walker

Opis

Whilst the body has 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 volume redresses the balance by exploring chronic illness and social work in the context of wider debates about vulnerability and resilience.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. 'I am My Own Worst Enemy'- Autoimmunity: Diseases of the 'Self'  2. Diagnostic Vertigo: Naming the Illness Experience  3. Patients, Professionals and the Clinical Encounter: Making the Connections  4. A Life Lived with Lupus  5. Foreclosed Furtures and Lost Pasts: Reconstituting a Salvaged Self  6. Digital Illness  7. Situating the Family in the Experience of Chronic Illness  8. Body Work in Social Work  9. Conclusion  10. Appendix