Contesting Illness Process and Practices 1st Edition by Pamela Moss ISBN 0802095127 9780802095121

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ISBN 10: 0802095127

ISBN 13: 9780802095121

Author: Pamela Moss

The relationship between power and illness is the subject of limited discussion despite it being one of the most important issues in health-related policies and services. In an effort to correct this, Contesting Illness engages critically with processes through which the meanings and effects of illness shape and are shaped by specific sets of practices. Featuring original contributions by researchers working in a number of disciplines, this collection examines intersections of power, contestation, and illness with the aid of various critical theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches.

The contributors explore experiences of illness, diagnosis, and treatment, and analyse wider discursive and policy contexts within which people become ill and engage with health care systems. Though each essay is unique in its approach, they are linked together by a shared focus on contestation as a conceptual tool in considering the relationship between power and illness. Rather than focus on a single example, the contributors address different contested illnesses (chronic fatigue syndrome and environmental illness, for instance) as well as the contested dimensions of illnesses that are accepted as legitimate such as cancer and autism. Contesting Illness offers valuable insights into the assumptions, practices, and interactions that shape illness in the twenty-first century.

Table of contents: 

1 Power and Illness: Authority, Bodies, and Context
2 Claiming a Disability Benefit as Contesting Social Citizenship
3 Workers’ Compensation and Controversial Illnesses
4 Managing Workplace Depression: Contesting the Contours of Emerging Policy in the Workplace
5 Contesting Coronary Candidacy: Reframing Risk Modification in Coronary Heart Disease
6 Hepatitis C and the Dawn of Biological Citizenship:
7 Tracing Contours of Contestation in Narratives about Chronic
8 Cancer as a Contested Illness: Seeking Help amid Treatment
9 Edging Embodiment and Embodying Categories: Reading Bodies Marked with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a Contested Illness
10 Managing the Monstrous Feminine: The Role of Premenstrual Syndrome in the Subjectification of Women
11 Resisting an Illness Label:Disability, Impairment, and Illness
12 The Race and Class Politics of Anorexia Nervosa: Unravelling White, Middle-Class Standards in Representations of Eating Problems
13 ‘More Labels Than a Jam Jar’: The Gendered Dynamics of Diagnosis for Girls and Women with Autism1
14 The Female Sexual Dysfunction Debate: Different ‘Problems,’
15 Moving from Settled to Contested: Transformations in the Anatomo-Politics of Breast Cancer, 1970–1990
16 Environments, Bodies, and the Cultural Imaginary: Imagining
17 Contestation and Medicalization
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