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July 1, 1982Sociology of Health & Illness3,883 citationsOpen Access

Chronic illness as biographical disruption

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MBMichael Bury

Key Points

  • This research aims to understand chronic illness as a biographical disruption affecting patients' narratives and resources.
  • Conducted semi-structured interviews with rheumatoid arthritis patients to gather personal narratives.
  • Analyzed disruptions in patients' lives due to chronic illness and how they explain their pain and suffering.
  • Identified that chronic illness causes significant biographical disruptions in patients' lives.
  • Highlight differences in cognitive and material resources available to patients during their illness journey.
  • Revealed a mix of professional and lay perspectives influencing how patients understand their experiences.

Abstract

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.

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Michael Bury (1982) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d75f25ef4aa71f97f30effhttps://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.ep11339939
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