'Futureless persons': Shifting life expectancies and the vicissitudes of progressive illness

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 554-568

  Gibson, Barbara E ^a,b   Zitzelsberger, Hilde ^a   McKeever, Patricia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of Toronto   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disability; Muscular dystrophy; Pierre Bourdieu; Progressive illness; Time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABLED PERSON; DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOLOGY; TIME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, DUCHENNE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65349154574     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01151.x     Document Type: Article

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