Contesting Illness : Process and Practices
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442687738
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (368 p.)
remote
Computer data. - Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
General Note: | CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 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: Unravelling the Policy Implications -- 7. Tracing Contours of Contestation in Narratives about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- 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 Autism -- 14. The Female Sexual Dysfunction Debate: Different 'Problems,' New Drugs - More Pressures? -- 15. Moving from Settled to Contested: Transformations in the Anatomo-Politics of Breast Cancer, 1970-1990 -- 16. Environments, Bodies, and the Cultural Imaginary: Imagining Ecological Impairment -- 17. Contestation and Medicalization -- Index |
Restrictions on Access Note: | restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization |
Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Issued also in print. |
System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Mode of access: Internet. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted through purchase. |
Language Note: | In English. |
Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by publisher. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) |