Chronicity Enquiries : Making Sense of Chronic Illness.

Intro -- Chronicity Enquiries: Making Sense of Chronic Illness -- Table of Contents -- Preface: The Stories We Like to Tell -- Section 1 The Traditional Stories -- Chronic Illness Interpreted in 'Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor': Why Is It Neglected? -- Sublime Illness: Friedrich Schiller's Chronic Lung Disease and the Concept of the Sublime -- Section 2 The Personal Stories -- Mandated Motherhood: Biopsychosocial Aspects of Coping with Infertility -- Psychosocial Support in Multiple Sclerosis: The Confidant Relationship Explored -- Fear of a Living Death: A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Chronicity, Terminal Illness and Euthanasia -- Health and Illness Representations in Patients with Rheumatic Disease -- Managing Multiple Chronic Illnesses: Narratives of Puerto Rican Latinos Living in the U.S. -- Section 3 The Visual and Virtual Stories -- Children's Experience of Living with Cancer -- Conquering AIDS through Narrative: LongLife Positive HIV Stories -- Lifting the Lid of Pandora's Box: Alzheimer's Disease in the Movies -- Passing Strange: Illness, Shame and Performance -- Depression, Disgrace and Categorical Distinctions: The Construction of a Stigma-Resistant Self in Published Affective Disorder Narratives -- Section 4 The Caregivers' Stories -- Improvisation: Five Capacities for Coping with Trauma and Loss in Chronic Illness -- Does Social Support and Self-Esteem Determine Depression in Chronically Ill Patients? -- Illness or Impairment? Human Frailty as a Guiding Axis: A Case Study Involving Young Cancer Sufferers in São Paulo, Brazil -- Is the New Care Planning Approach to Long Term Conditions Suitable for All Patients? The Case of Diabetes -- General Practitioner Perceptions of Chronic Illness Place People Somewhere between Health and Illness.

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