title: The domination of chronic illness research by biomedical interests.
abstract: The interest of biomedicine is the physical body viewed in isolation from the contextual understandings which shape the chronic illness experience. This neglect of the illness experience was evident in an inquiry conducted by the first author with 81 women who live with chronic illness. Herein we discuss a secondary analysis of the correspondence data in which we found many common elements across different medical diagnoses.
authors.affiliation: Plymouth University, Exeter, United Kingdom. kralik@bigpond.com
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kralik
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Webb
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D016387:Women's Health