Self-management of chronic disease: critical perspectives
We'd like to invite you to consider submitting an abstract to our
Panel 38 at the EASA2016 Conference in Milan, Italy (July 20-23),
entitled:
The self-management of chronic disease: critical perspectives
Discussant: Vincent
Pidoux (University of Lausanne) vincent.pidoux@unil.
Short Abstract
This
panel will bring a critical reflection on self-management of chronic
disease from a variety
of theoretical, methodological and epistemological lenses. Both
empowerment and autonomy as medical concepts and chronic disease as form
of living will be theoretically and empirically addressed.
Long Abstract
In
past decades, chronic diseases have become a salient social, political
and healthcare issue. Empowerment,
autonomy and self-management have been defined as medical priorities
for the Therapeutic Education (TE) of people living with chronic
disease. Mobilising heterogeneous knowledge, including lay and medical
notions and skills, and interacting with a large variety
of healthcare professionals and other supporting actors (relatives,
friends, patients, etc.) characterise the way people living with chronic
disease cope with their condition.
This
panel aims at bringing a critical reflection on this crucial topic of
research from a socio-anthropological
perspective including a variety of theoretical, methodological and
epistemological lenses. It also aims at discussing the possible
contribution of ethnographic and qualitative approaches to chronic
disease management when confronted to mainstream medical discourses
and practices on TE, empowerment, autonomy and self-management. This
panel will raise questions about chronic disease as a form of living
with particular symbolic and material practices and resources. Do
different types of chronic diseases need different approaches,
analyses and appraisals from Social Sciences (e.g. Medical
Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Health and
Illness)? How knowledge about self-management is produced and circulates
through the broad health and social networks in which
people living with chronic disease are embedded? What kind of knowledge
is at stake? Which are the symbolic and material resources they
mobilise and how do they use them? This panel intends to put together
original empirical or theoretical contributions tackling
these questions (although it is not limited to them).
Conditions and Rules on the Call for Papers EASA 2016 webpage: http://www.easaonline
Deadline: The
call for papers is now open and closes at midnight GMT on February 15th, 2016.
Proposing a paper: All
proposals must be made via the online form, not by email. Proposals must be made to a specific panel. There is a 'propose a paper' link beneath the long abstract of each panel
page.
Paper proposals must consist of:
- a paper title
- the name/s and email address/es of author/s
- a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
- a long abstract of fewer than 250 words
The link of the panel 038 is: http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/
Please feel free to get in touch for any questions in advance of the deadline.
Best wishes,
Vincent