New Directions in the Sociology of Chronic and Disabling Conditions: Assaults on the Lifeworld

by Graham Scambler (Editor), Sasha Scambler (Editor)

Bringing together disability theorists and medical sociologists for the first time in this cutting-edge collection, contributors examine chronic illness and disability, disability theory, doctor-patient encounters, lifeworld issues and the new genetics.

248 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2009