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Thursday, February 18, 2010

Revisiting biographical disruption: Exploring individual embodied illness experience in people with terminal cancer



"Biographical accounts of illness offer useful insights into the social and adaptive processes of living with chronic illness. Yet there are concerns that the underlying theoretical assumptions of a reflexive self seeking to maintain meaning may not reflect the lived experience of individuals....We discuss the possibilities for new approaches to clinical assessment and management of need."