Contesting Illness : : Process and Practices / / ed. by Pamela Moss, Kathy Teghtsoonian.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Angus, Jan,; Bülow, Pia H.,; Conrad, Peter,; Davidson, Joyce,; Gremillion, Helen,; Kelley, Joshua,; Klawiter, Maren,; Kroll-Smith, Steve,; Lippel, Katherine,; Moss, Pamela,; Mossel, Catherine Van,; Orsini, Michael,; Potts, Annie,; Prince, Michael J.,; Purkis, Mary Ellen,; Stone, Sharon Dale,; Stults, Cheryl,; Teghtsoonian, Katherine,; Ussher, Jane M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Moss, Pamela,; Teghtsoonian, Kathy,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)

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 illn...

Table of Contents

• 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