Paperback • 1997 • English

Disrupted Lives How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World

Name: Disrupted Lives How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World
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ISBN: 9780520209145

By Gaylene Becker

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About the book

"A fine account of experiences of suffering in everyday America understood as occasions for making meaning."—Arthur Kleinman, co-editor of Social Suffering "An original and compassionate contribution to the study of human suffering. It describes how people try to make sense of lives disrupted, and often fragmented, by major crises: stroke, illness, migration, miscarriage or infertility. Her descriptions of the narratives and metaphors they use to try to restore the coherence of their world-view...Show more

Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss

Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration

Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

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ISBN

9780520209145

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

1997

Language

English

Original title

Disrupted Lives How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World

Format

Paperback

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