Inflammatory bowel disease as a cultural artifact : an ethnography of the politics of suffering

This thesis is an analytical ethnography of the experience of chronic illness in the contemporary setting of a modern Western society. The substantive data is presented in the form of more or less extended narrative accounts from a number of unrelated individuals recounting and reflecting upon their...

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Main Author: Foulds, John Simon
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25292