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Author Moss, Pamela, 1960-

Title Women, body, illness : space and identity in the everyday lives of women with chronic illness / Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002

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 WATERFT HEALTH  616.044082 Mos/Wbi  DUE 23-05-24
Description x, 225 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Setting out some issues -- Working through theories of the body -- Conceptualizing chronic illness with space -- Making sense of chronic illness -- Approaching analysis and the "interpretive act" -- Destabilization of the material body: onset, diagnosis, inscription -- Limits to the body: income issues, borders -- Absence of presence / presence of absence: borders, identity, everyday life -- Disciplining the environment through re-learning the body: everyday life, minutiae, daily living -- Connections
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Chronic diseases -- Psychological aspects.
Chronic diseases -- Social aspects.
Women -- Diseases -- Psychological aspects.
Women -- Diseases -- Social aspects.
Body image.
Spatial behavior.
Social medicine.
Feminist theory.
Human geography.
Author Dyck, Isabel.
LC no. 2002001197
ISBN 0847695433 alkaline paper
0847695441 paper