Subtitle: The Self and Chronic Illness in Time
Author: Kathy C. Charmaz
Subject: Sociology/Health
Paper ISBN 0-8135-1967-5
Pages: 311 pp.
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Winner, 1992 Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

Winner, Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association

"Charmaz transcends the basic issues involved in chronic illness to disclose linkages between one's sense of identity and one's construction of time, which have implications well beyond the realm of health and illness."--Contemporary Sociology

"A very moving work. It does a marvelous job of allowing the reader to get 'inside' the experience of chronic illness."--Lyn H. Lofland, University of California, Davis

"This is an outstanding work. [It] brilliantly conveys an unsurpassable depth of understanding and feeling about the chronically ill."--Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana

Millions of American suffer chronic illness, but what is life really like when you are chronically ill? Drawing on skillfully conducted in-depth interviews, Kathy Charmaz takes a fresh look at the experiences of people with serious chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, lupus, emphysema, multiple sclerosis, and arthritis.

Kathy Charmaz is professor and chair of the department of sociology at Sonoma State University. She is the author of The Social Reality of Death.