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... personal experiences are not just integrated as interesting anecdotal data, but are thoroughly integrated into Vickers' theoretical and methodological framework. Her approach is to be honest, reflexive and self-critical... Work and Unseen Chronic Illness is one of those rare treasures which leaps from the page and grabs you on both an intellectual and emotional level. Medical Sociology news, Mark Sherry.
... [This title] gives some idea of the power of qualitative research in areas where quantitative analysis - the so-called evidence base of medicine - is clumsy or altogether useless. Usually in the health sciences the power relations are the other way round, and it's really encouraging to see that they do not always have to be. ... this work... seems unmeasurably important. Desmond Avery, World Health Organization Bulletin.
Book Description
There are a growing number of working adults affected by chronic health conditions that may be largely invisible to those around them. In this book, the author explores the 'silent' problem of unseen illness at work.
The author employs qualitative research methods to challenge the idea that if you look well, you must be well. While demonstrating the effectiveness of this controversial methodology, she uses it to expose the voices of a group of marginalized workplace actors who have hitherto remained unheard.
Work and Unseen Chronic Illness (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies),M. Vickers,Routledge,0415243475,Business & Economics,Business/Economics,Chronic diseases,Discrimination in employment,Labor,Medical / Nursing,Occupational & Industrial Medicine,Social Conditions Of Labor,Work capacity evaluation,Business & Economics / General,Illness & addiction: social aspects,Labour economics,Work & labour
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