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Chronicity Enquiries: Making Sense of Chronic Illness
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2013.
Chronic illness, together with people experiencing or treating it, became almost mute to predominant biomedical narration pervasive in mainstream media, education, medical and pharmaceutical industry. Contributors in this book aim to represent, discuss, and preserve the vanishing voices and stories on chronic illness from dimensions beyond medicine so that we may make sense of chronicity with the diversity it deserves. The book also incorporates research articles which share important stories about chronicity. These stories, same as chronic illness in our world, should not be treated in a ‘standardised’ way. Each reader, we hope, will relate the meanings of chronicity in this book to his or her own world.
Chronic illness, together with people experiencing or treating it, became almost mute to predominant biomedical narration pervasive in mainstream media, education, medical and pharmaceutical industry. Contributors in this book aim to represent, discuss, and preserve the vanishing voices and stories on chronic illness from dimensions beyond medicine so that we may make sense of chronicity with the diversity it deserves. The book also incorporates research articles which share important stories about chronicity. These stories, same as chronic illness in our world, should not be treated in a ‘standardised’ way. Each reader, we hope, will relate the meanings of chronicity in this book to his or her own world.
Zhenyi Li, PhD, is an Associate Professor teaching Intercultural Communication at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, Canada. His research focus is on intercultural health communication.
Sara Rieder Bennett, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in practice at Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at Clemson University. She also serves as the Coordinator of Research Services at CAPS and is an adjunct psychology instructor at Greenville Technical College and the University of Phoenix. Her research focuses on reproductive health psychology, health and illness, professional identity and development in psychology, and gender and cultural issues in psychology.
Sara Rieder Bennett, PhD, is a licensed psychologist in practice at Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at Clemson University. She also serves as the Coordinator of Research Services at CAPS and is an adjunct psychology instructor at Greenville Technical College and the University of Phoenix. Her research focuses on reproductive health psychology, health and illness, professional identity and development in psychology, and gender and cultural issues in psychology.