Contesting illness processes and practices (University of Toronto Press, 2008)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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