Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Chronicity and the Experience of Illness
Lenore Manderson and Carolyn Smith-Morris
Part One The Idea of Chronicity
1 The Chronicity of Life, The Acuteness of Diagnosis
Carolyn Smith-Morris
2 Globalizing the Chronicities of Modernity: Diabetes and the Metabolic
Syndrome
Dennis Wiedman
3 Is “Chronicity” Inevitable for Psychotic Illness?: Studying
Heterogeneity in the Course of Schizophrenia in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Byron J. Good, Carla Manchira, Nida Ul Hasanat, Muhana Sofiata Utami,
and Subandi
Part Two Gender and the Experience of Illness
4 Male Infertility, Chronicity, and the Plight of Palestinian Men in
Israel and Lebanon
Marcia C. Inhorn and Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli
5 “Half a Woman”: Embodied Disruptions and Ideas of Gender among
Australian Women
Lenore Manderson
6 Ecuadorian Women’s Narratives of Lupus, Suffering, and Vulnerability
Ann Miles
7 Why Women Don’t Die in Childbirth: Maternal Survivorship in
Badakhshan, Tajikistan
Kylea Laina Liese
Part Three The Clinical Interface
8 Chronic Illness and the Assemblages of Time in Multi-Sited Encounters
Steve Ferzacca
9 Chronicity and AIDS in Three South African Communities
Carl Kendall and Zelee Hill
10 Disability and Dysappearance: Negotiating Physical and Social Risk
with Cystic Fibrosis
Ron Maynard
11 Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs: “Once we got
there, it was fine”
Elisa J. Sobo
12 Chronic Conditions, Health, and Well-Being in Global Contexts:
Occupational Therapy in Conversation with Critical Medical Anthropology
Gelya Frank, Carolyn Baum, and Mary Law
Afterword: Chronicity—Time, Space, and Culture
Arthur Kleinman and Rachel Hall-Clifford
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
"A major collection of essays from leaders
in the field of medical anthropology, Chronic
Conditions, Fluid States pays much-needed attention to one of
the greatest challenges currently faced by both the wealthiest and
poorest of nations. For anyone wishing to think critically about
chronic illness in cross-cultural perspective, the social forces
shaping this issue, and its impact on the lived experiences of people
worldwide, there is no better place to start than this pioneering
volume."-Richard Parker, Columbia University, Editor-in-Chief, Global
Public Health
Description:
Chronic
Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic
illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in
diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well
as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the
challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic.
Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the
chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a
group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the
field, address the concept of chronicity, an idea used to explain
individual and local life-worlds, question public health discourse, and
consider the relationship between health and the globalizing forces
that shape it. About the Author:
LENORE MANDERSON is a research professor
with appointments in the faculties of medicine, nursing and health
sciences, and arts at Monash University, Australia. Her books include
Global Health Policy, Local Realities and Rethinking Wellbeing.
