| Contents |
1. Power and Illness: Authority, Bodies, and Context / Pamela Moss And Katherine Teghtsoonian -- 2. Claiming a Disability Benefit as Contesting Social Citizenship / Michael J. Prince -- 3. Workers' Compensation and Controversial Illnesses / Katherine Lippel -- 4. Managing Workplace Depression: Contesting the Contours of Emerging Policy in the Workplace / Katherine Teghtsoonian -- 5. Contesting Coronary Candidacy: Reframining Risk Modification in Coronary Heart Disease / Jan Angus -- 6. Hepatitis C and the Dawn of Biological Citizenship: Unravelling the Policy Implications / Michael Orsini -- 7. Tracing Contours of Contestation in Narratives about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome / Pia H. Bolow -- 8. Cancer as a Contested Illness: Seeking Help amid Treatment / Mary Ellen Purkis And Catherine Van Mossel -- 9. Edging Embodiment and Embodying Categories: Reading Bodies Marked with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis as a Contested Illness / Pamela Moss -- 10. Managing the Monstrous Feminine: The Role of Premenstrual Syndrome in the Subjectification of Women / Jane M. Ussher -- 11. Resisting an Illness Label: Disability, Impairment, and Illness / Sharon Dale Stone -- 12. The Race and Class Politics of Anorexia Nervosa: Unravelling White, Middle-Class Standards in Representations of Eating Problems / Helen Gremillion -- 13. 'More Labels Than a Jam Jar': The Gendered Dynamics of Diagnosis for Girls and Women with Autism / Joyce Davidson -- 14. The Female Sexual Dysfunction Debate: Different 'Problems, ' New Drugs -- More Pressures? / Annie Potts -- 15. Moving from Settled to Contested: Transformations in the Anatomo-Politics of Breast Cancer, 1970-1990 / Maren Klawiter -- 16. Environments, Bodies, and the Cultural Imaginary: Imagining Ecological Impairment / Steve Kroll-Smith And Joshua Kelley -- 17. Contestation and Medicalization / Peter Conrad And Cheryl Stults -- Index. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Contesting illness. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2008 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781442687738 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1442687738 (electronic book) |
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| Stock number | 22573/ctt582qx JSTOR |
