Chronicity, care and complexity (original) (raw)

This book follows from the international Making Sense of Chronicity conference, held at Mansfield College, Oxford in September 2012. This was an interdisciplinary conference in which 26 papers were presented around aspects of chronic illness research and experience. Speakers came from a variety of academic backgrounds, including anthropology, medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, public health, sociology and theology. In addition to this, their personal involvement with chronicity possibly deserves a study in itself. They were researchers, clinicians, people with chronic conditions, as well as friends, family and carers, all interacting with, and making sense of, chronicity in their own way.