Chronicity, care and complexity / / edited by Rose Richards, Jennifer Creek.

• Superior document: Probing the Boundaries
• TeilnehmendeR: Richards, Rose, Ph. D.,; Creek, Jennifer,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, United Kingdom : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Probing the boundaries.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Chronicity is about people rather than medical conditions. It may best be understood as a complex phenomenon in which multiple elements interact with each other in unpredictable ways to bring about unanticipated changes. Making sense of chronicity, therefore, requires that we not only pay attention to all aspects of experiencing the condition, but also think about the relationships between them.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Rose Richards and Jennifer Creek -- Tailoring the Harvard Special Health Report on Diabetes to the Cultural Needs of Saudi Women / Hana Al-Bannay , Tal Jarus , Lyn Jongbloed , Zhenyi Li and Elizabeth Dean -- Web-Based Research Methods and Social Media: Investigating Type 2 Diabetes, Communication and Identity / Adrian Bertoli -- Quest, Chaos and Restitution: The Illness Narratives of Individuals Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia Syndrome / Claire Diver , Mark Avis and Anindya Gupta -- The Health-within-Illness Model (HWIM) to Reconcile Borderlands between Health and Illness for People Living with Chronic Disease / Edith Ellefsen -- End of Life Care in Heart Failure: Is It Time to Reinvent the Wheel? / Rachel Stocker , Helen Close and A Pali S Hungin -- Facing Mortality: Perceptions of Death in Patients with Palliative Care / Susana Neves , Abílio Oliveira and Daniel Sampaio -- ‘For the Blood is the Soul’: The Haemodialysis Experience / Tsipi Hanalis-Miller , Rebecca Jacoby and Mauro Rathaus -- Living with Heart Failure through the Lens of Patients: A Metasynthesis / Janet Gavin Knecht -- ‘You Look Very Well for a Transplant’: Finding a Space for One’s Narrative in Chronic Kidney Disease through Autoethnography / Rose Richards -- Living with Sarcoidosis / Penny Humphries and Jennifer Creek -- Tackling Faith-Based Stigma in the Context of HIV/AIDS / Ville Päivänsalo -- Have You Remembered to Take the Coumadin? Life Trajectories and Invisible Work in the Narratives of Coronary Heart Disease Patients / Aide Esu -- The Experience of Coping with Disability Acquired Due to Chronic Illness / Randi Garber and Adi Finkelstein -- Living with Chronic Disease: Self-Management of Daily Activities by Patients with Rheumatic Disease / Maria do Céu Sá and Abílio Oliveira -- Creative Approaches to Mental Health: A Critical Analysis of the Mindfulness Agenda in Sussex / Kate Spiegelhalter -- Persistent Pain as a Pathological Entity / Elisa Arnaudo -- The Embodiment of Chronic Disease in Heilkunst Medicine / Carol-Ann Galego -- Intimacy and Empowerment in a Clinic of Chronicity / Ian Flaherty -- Coping with Chronic Pain in Everyday Life: The Case of Fibromyalgia Syndrome / Chiara Moretti.