Missed and dismissed voices : living with hidden chronic health problems / Alexander Segall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segall, Alexander, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chronic diseases--Case studies.

Chronic diseases.

Chronically ill--Case studies.

Chronically ill.

Self-care, Health--Case studies.

Self-care, Health.

Adjustment (Psychology)--Case studies.

Adjustment (Psychology).

Adaptability (Psychology).

Self-perception.

Adaptation, Psychological.

Medical Subjects:

Adaptation, Psychological.

Genre:

Case studies

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 195 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Living with hidden chronic health problems

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2023]

Summary:

There is a complex relationship between illness and identity. In this volume, Alexander Segall aims to expose the impact of hidden health problems on the daily lives of a growing number of older adults who live with chronic conditions and repeatedly face the challenge of trying to maintain their personal sense of healthiness across the life course. Segall focuses on the meaning and management of both medically diagnosed chronic diseases and medically unexplained physical conditions or syndromes. In each case, people must decide whether to make their private suffering public. The book includes analysis derived from research literature, combined with illness narrative accounts of people in qualitative interviews and blog posts, to create fictional exemplary case studies for each of the chronic conditions examined. The common issues raised in these stories provide important insights into the process by which people manage to adapt to their changing health status and life circumstances. In this book, Segall gives voice to chronically ill people who often have their life stories either missed or dismissed. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Illness and Identity : an Exploration. Understanding our sense of healthiness

Maintaining a healthy self-identity

Living With Medically Diagnosed Chronic Diseases : an Unrelenting Assault on the Body and Self. Chronic disease as a disruptive life event

Life stories about the invisible impact of chronic disease : some missed voices

Living With Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms : Discounted Stories of Sickness and Suffering. Contested chronic illnesses : uncertainty and the quest for credibility

Life stories about uncertain and invisible chronic illness : some dismissed voices

The Lifelong Pursuit of Healthiness : Meeting the Challenges. Making sense of sickness : explanation and adaptation

Health across the life course.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-191) and index (pages [193]-195).

Other Format:

Online version: Segall, Alexander, 1943- Missed and dismissed voices.

ISBN:

1487504578

9781487504571

1487523408

9781487523404

OCLC:

1371749471

Publisher Number:

90104114068