New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions

1. Introduction: The Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions; Assaults on the Lifeworld
Graham Scambler, Sasha Scambler

2. Studying the Experience of Chronic Illness through Grounded Theory
Kathy Charmaz

3. Medical Sociology and Disability Theory
Carol Thomas

4. Beyond Models: Understanding the Complexity of Disabled People’s Lives
Tom Shakespeare, Nick Watson

5. ‘Where the Biological Predominates’: Habitus, Reflexivity and Capital Accrual within the Field of Batten Disease
Sasha Scambler, Paul Newton

6. Discerning Biological, Psychological and Social Mechanisms in the Impact of Epilepsy on the Individual: A Framework and Exploration
Graham Scambler, Panagiota Afentouli, Caroline Selai

7. Retheorizing the Clinical Encounter: Normalization Processes and the Corporate Ecologies of Care
Carl May

8. ‘Chronicity’, Proto-Stories and the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Alan Radley

9. Chronic Illness, Self-management and the Rhetoric of Empowerment
Mike Bury

10. Understanding Incapacity
Gareth H. Williams

11. The Biopolitics of Chronic Illness: Biology, Power and Personhood
Simon J. Williams

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Sociology of the Body, Medical Sociology, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Social Structure, Social Inequality