Chronic illness as biographical disruption

Michael Bury

doi:10.1111/1467-9566.ep11339939

journal article Jul 01, 1982

Chronic illness as biographical disruption

Michael Bury

Sociology of Health & Illness Vol. 4 No. 2 pp. 167-182 · Wiley

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Abstract

Abstract The paper is based on semi‐structured interviews with a series of rheumatoid arthritis patients. Chronic illness is conceptualised as a particular type of disruptive event. This disruption highlights the resources (cognitive and material) available to individuals, modes of explanation for pain and suffering, continuities and discontinuities between professional and lay thought, and sources of variation in experience.

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Published: Jul 01, 1982
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Michael Bury (1982). Chronic illness as biographical disruption. Sociology of Health & Illness, 4(2), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.ep11339939

Chronic illness as biographical disruption

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