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Author Paun, Margaret Voysey, author

Title A Constant Burden : the Reconstitution of Family Life
Edition Second edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Contents Chapter Introduction / Margaret Voysey Paun -- chapter 1 Underlying Pathology and Apparent Normality / Margaret Voysey Paun -- chapter 2 Normal Appearances and Official Morality / Margaret Voysey Paun -- chapter 3 Methodology: Some Autobiography / Margaret Voysey Paun -- chapter 4 The Families with a Disabled Child / Margaret Voysey Paun -- chapter 5 Definitions of the Disabled Child as Rational Constructions: Social Contexts and Common Sense / Margaret Voysey Paun -- chapter 6 The Presentation of Normal Parenthood: Private Activities and Public Performances / Margaret Voysey Paun -- chapter 7 The Legitimation of Suffering / Margaret Voysey Paun -- chapter 8 Acceptance and Adjustment / Margaret Voysey Paun
Summary "First published in 1975, A Constant Burden was a truly ground-breaking text in the field of medical sociology and has since become an undisputed classic. Over thirty years later this revised edition gives new life to this important work. It contains the same seminal study of families with a disabled child, based on an analysis of interviews with parents about the effects of their child's disability on their family life. Whereas much of the contemporary research assumed that the presence of such a child must constitute a problem, and attempted to read parents' responses as indicators of the family's psychological and social adjustment to this 'reality', Voysey Paun's analysis takes a radically different stance. She shows that what parents say should rather be understood as socially constructed accounts of 'normal parenting' which induce others to identify them as properly fulfilling their responsibilities as good parents. Voysey Paun's approach to the analysis and interpretation of interview responses has become a much more central theme for sociological research, instrumental in changing theories about the nature of disability and the family as expressed by sociologists, social workers and other agencies. The revised edition contains a new introduction which puts the study in its intellectual context. It will be essential reading in the sociology of health and illness, and will also be of interest to social workers and other professionals concerned with disability and family life."--Provided by publisher
Subject Children with disabilities -- Family relationships
Dysfunctional families -- Great Britain
Children with disabilities -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain
Children with disabilities -- Family relationships
Children with disabilities -- Rehabilitation
Dysfunctional families
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781351163606
1351163604