http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26843550
Perhaps Coyne should write a reply entitled ´Being a charlatan is work.´
Perhaps Coyne should write a reply entitled ´Being a charlatan is work.´
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A less cryptic (more accurate) title and intro for this thread might generate more interest.
Abstract
The concept of careers has an extensive history in the sociology of health and illness. Among other things, the notion of a career has been used to describe the changing identities of patients diagnosed with mental illness, to identify distinct stages in the progression of various illnesses, and to recognize the cooperative efforts of hospitalized patients. However, the career concept may be reanalyzed as part of an analytical metaphor that makes salient both the agency of people with illnesses and the social structures in which they are enmeshed. This metaphor, ILLNESS IS WORK, can valorize and aid understanding of the identity work and actions of patients with chronic illnesses, particularly illnesses with a low degree of social recognition and medical prestige such as myalgic encephalopathy and chronic fatigue syndrome.
Shades of Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass!This is jargon heavy. Words may not have the conventional meanings.
Social sciences writing is often turgid.Without a full publication this could be anything. If we care about this at all we need the full article, which I gather is not yet published.
This is jargon heavy. Words may not have the conventional meanings.
It appears to be sub-discipline jargon heavy. Even those outside their own discipline can have trouble. I have read some sociology as part of my investigations over the years. Some of it is very good. Then there is the other kind.Social sciences writing is often turgid.