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Chronic illness as biographical disruption
Author(s) -
Bury Michael
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
sociology of health and illness
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1467-9566
pISSN - 0141-9889
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9566.ep11339939
Subject(s) - chronic pain , cognition , rheumatoid arthritis , psychology , distress , variation (astronomy) , psychotherapist , medicine , developmental psychology , psychiatry , clinical psychology , physics , astrophysics
The paper is based on semi‐structured interviews with a series of rheumatoid arthritis patients. Chronic illness is conceptualised as a particular type of disruptive event. This disruption highlights the resources (cognitive and material) available to individuals, modes of explanation for pain and suffering, continuities and discontinuities between professional and lay thought, and sources of variation in experience.