Description
| Product ID: | 9780367539030 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Interdisciplinary Disability Studies |
| Title: | Identity Construction and Illness Narratives in Persons with Disabilities |
| Authors: | Author: Chalotte Glintborg, Manuel L. de la Mata |
| Page Count: | 154 |
| Subjects: | Research methods: general, Research methods: general, Disability: social aspects, Sociology, Personal and public health / health education, Medical sociology, Health, Relationships and Personal development, Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability, Disability: social aspects, Sociology, Personal & public health, Medical sociology, Health & personal development, Coping with disability |
| Description: | This book investigates how being diagnosed with various disabilities impacts on identity. This book investigates how being diagnosed with various disabilities impacts on identity. Once diagnosed with a disability, there is a risk that this label can become the primary status both for the person diagnosed as well as for their family. This reification of the diagnosis can be oppressive because it subjugates humanity in such a way that everything a person does can be interpreted as linked to their disability. Drawing on narrative approaches to identity in psychology and social sciences, the bio-psycho-social model and a holistic approach to disabilities, the chapters in this book understand disability as constructed in discourse, as negotiated among speaking subjects in social contexts, and as emergent. By doing so, they amplify voices that may have otherwise remained silent and use storytelling as a way of communicating the participants'' realities to provide a more in-depth understanding of their point of view. This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, medical humanities, disability research methods, narrative theory, and rehabilitation studies. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-04-29 |
