HSS 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Total Institution, Mammography, Oncology
4 Oct 2017
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A concept that is derived from qualitative narrative analyses. This examines how people make sense of their illness in the context of their lives. The continuity of biography is at risk since body and performance failures lead to the loss of salient aspects of life. The notion of chronic illness as a disruptive event or critical situation . Illness, particularly chronic illness, is an experience in which the structures of everyday life, its taken-for-granted features, and the tacit stocks of knowledge upon which they rest are profoundly disrupted. What is going on here? stage involves attention to bodily states not usually brought into consciousness, and decisions about seeking help. A fundamental rethinking of the person"s biography ( why me? , why now? ) The practical response to this disruption which involves the mobilization of resources in the face of an altered situation: biographical repair. Mobilizing resources: attempt to normalize in the face of disruption.
