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The Body, Identity, and Self: Adapting To Impairment

Kathy Charmaz

1995.9.1SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY

DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1995.tb00459.x

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Serious chronic illness forces identity changes and alters the unity between body and self.

Abstract

Serious chronic illness undermines the unity between body and self and forces identity changes. To explicate how the body, identity, and self intersect in illness, one mode of living with impairmen...

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CHARMAZ, Kathy. The body, identity, and self: Adapting to impairment. SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 1995, 36: 657–680.