2nd Edition
A Constant Burden The Reconstitution of Family Life
By Margaret Voysey Paun
Copyright 2006
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1975, A Constant Burden was a truly ground-breaking text in the field of medical sociology and has since become an undisputed classic. Over thirty years later this revised edition gives new life to this important work. It contains the same seminal study of families with a disabled child, based on an analysis of interviews with parents about the effects of their child's... Read more
Contents: New introduction; Introduction; Underlying pathology and apparent normality; Normal appearances and official morality; Methodology: some autobiography; The families with a disabled child; Definitions of the disabled child as rational constructions: social contexts and common sense; The presentation of normal parenthood: private activities and public performances; The legitimation of suffering; Acceptance and adjustment; References; Index.
Biography
Margaret Voysey Paun
