http://www.sociologypress.com/books/interest/chronic_illness_life.htm

This book is part reader and part monograph. There is an enormous range of experience associated with chronic illness that impairs life, hence the quality of life before the illness’ onset. This book deals with the redesigning of life styles, when living with chronic illness and illness regimes, to regain and renormalize quality of life.

CONTENT

Introduction

Part I

Problems of living with chronic illness

1

Preventing and managing medical crises

2

Management of regimes

3

Symptom control

4

Reordering of time

5

Managing the trajectory

6

Social isolation

7

A basic strategy: normalizing

8

The family in the picture

Part II

Specific chronic conditions and their implications

9

The burden of rheumatoid arthritis

10

Ulcerative colitis: strategies for managing life

11

Childhood diabetes: the commonplace in living becomes uncommon

12

Getting around emphysema

13

Chronic renal failure and the problem of funding

14

Dying in hospitals

Part 3

The health care system and chronic illness

15

Providing better care

16

Public policy and chronic illness