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Medical sociology

the way onset of chronic illness breaks the taken-for-granted structures of daily life and forces a rethinking of a person's biography and self-concept.

In medical sociology, biographical disruption refers to the way onset of chronic illness breaks the taken-for-granted structures of daily life and forces a rethinking of a person's biography and self-concept. This meaning comes from Bury (1982) in Sociology of Health & Illness.[1]

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References

Bury, M. (1982). Chronic illness as biographical disruption. Sociology of Health & Illness, 4(2), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.ep11339939

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