| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
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Routledge advances in social work |
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Routledge advances in social work.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'I am my own worst enemy': autoimmunity: diseases of the 'self'; 2 Diagnostic vertigo: naming the illness experience; 3 Patients, professionals and the clinical encounter -- making the connections; 4 A life lived with lupus; 5 Foreclosed futures and lost pasts: reconstituting a salvaged self; 6 Digital illness; 7 Situating the family in the experience of chronic illness; 8 Body work in social work; Conclusion; Appendix: notes on research methodology; Index |
| Summary |
Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease. This innovative volume redresses the balance by exploring chronic illness and social work, through the specific lens of autoimmunity, engaging in wider debates around vulnerability, resistance and the lived experience of ongoing ill-health. Moving beyond existing conceptualisations of vulnerability as an issue of mental distress, ageing, child protection and poverty, Price and Walker demonstrate the role th |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 18, 2021) |
| Subject |
Diseases -- Psychology
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Social service.
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Autoimmune diseases -- Psychology
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Body image.
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Self-perception.
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Chronic Disease -- psychology
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Social Work
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Autoimmune Diseases -- psychology
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Body Image
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Self Concept
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
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MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Diseases.
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MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
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Social service
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Self-perception
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Body image
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Chronic pain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Walker, Liz (Reader in social work), author.
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| ISBN |
9781136165467 |
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1136165460 |
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9780203080146 |
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0203080149 |
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9781136165450 |
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1136165452 |
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9781136165412 |
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113616541X |
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