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Ferguson, Charlie

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“…If, however, degenerative disease was perceived as having a variable cause then its predetermined status was at once undermined. So while diseases such as hypertension, myocardial degeneration and arteriosclerosis might be labelled as ‘of unknown origin and of the chronic degenerative type’ (Langstroth : 1607), the observation that there were variations in the resilience of individuals to these afflictions that might be due to, say, living habits (Ferguson ) marked the appearance of a crack in the edifice of natural ageing. Diet, for example, might be able to ‘prevent and alleviate much of the so‐called degenerative disease’ (Sherman : 1426).…”

Section: The Causes Of Diseasementioning

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Chronic illness: a revisionist account

Armstrong

2013

Sociology Health & Illness

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This article challenges the generally accepted thesis that the emergence and dominance of chronic illness over the last half century is due to the receding tide of acute infectious diseases and an ageing population. Instead, through an analysis of contemporary reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association, it is argued that the construct of chronic illness emerged as part of a new focus on the downstream consequences of disease and as a means of transferring what had been seen as the natural processes of ageing and senescence into an explanatory model based on pathological processes. The widely accepted idea of an epidemiological transition in illness prevalence has served to conceal the ways in which medicine has extended its remit and suppressed alternative explanatory frameworks.

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Section: The Causes Of Diseasementioning

confidence: 99%

Chronic illness: a revisionist account

Armstrong

2013

Sociology Health & Illness

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