KATHY CHARMAZ is professor and chair of the department of sociology at Sonoma State University. She is the author of The Social Reality of Death.

Charmaz transcends the basic issues involved in chronic illness to disclose linkages between one's sense of identity and one's construction of time, which have implications well beyond the realm of health and illness. (Contemporary Sociology) A very moving work. It does a marvelous job of allowing the reader to get 'inside' the experience of chronic illness. - Lyn H. Lofland, (University of California, Davis) This is an outstanding work. [It] brilliantly conveys an unsurpassable depth of understanding and feeling about the chronically ill. - Norman K. Denzin (University of Illinois, Urbana)

• Preface1. IntroductionPart I. Experiencing Chronic Illness2. Chronic Illness as Interruption3. Intrusive Illness4. Immersion in IllnessPart II. Problems in Everyday Life5. Disclosing Illness6. Living with Chronic IllnessPart III. Illness, the Self, and Time7. Time Perspectives and Time Structures8. Timemarkers and Turning Points9. The Self in Time10. Lessons from the Experience of IllnessEpilogueMethodological AppendixNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex

KATHY CHARMAZ is professor and chair of the department of sociology at Sonoma State University. She is the author of The Social Reality of Death.

Charmaz transcends the basic issues involved in chronic illness to disclose linkages between one's sense of identity and one's construction of time, which have implications well beyond the realm of health and illness. (Contemporary Sociology) A very moving work. It does a marvelous job of allowing the reader to get 'inside' the experience of chronic illness. - Lyn H. Lofland, (University of California, Davis) This is an outstanding work. [It] brilliantly conveys an unsurpassable depth of understanding and feeling about the chronically ill. - Norman K. Denzin (University of Illinois, Urbana)

• Preface1. IntroductionPart I. Experiencing Chronic Illness2. Chronic Illness as Interruption3. Intrusive Illness4. Immersion in IllnessPart II. Problems in Everyday Life5. Disclosing Illness6. Living with Chronic IllnessPart III. Illness, the Self, and Time7. Time Perspectives and Time Structures8. Timemarkers and Turning Points9. The Self in Time10. Lessons from the Experience of IllnessEpilogueMethodological AppendixNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex

KATHY CHARMAZ is professor and chair of the department of sociology at Sonoma State University. She is the author of The Social Reality of Death.

Charmaz transcends the basic issues involved in chronic illness to disclose linkages between one's sense of identity and one's construction of time, which have implications well beyond the realm of health and illness. (Contemporary Sociology) A very moving work. It does a marvelous job of allowing the reader to get 'inside' the experience of chronic illness. - Lyn H. Lofland, (University of California, Davis) This is an outstanding work. [It] brilliantly conveys an unsurpassable depth of understanding and feeling about the chronically ill. - Norman K. Denzin (University of Illinois, Urbana)

• Preface1. IntroductionPart I. Experiencing Chronic Illness2. Chronic Illness as Interruption3. Intrusive Illness4. Immersion in IllnessPart II. Problems in Everyday Life5. Disclosing Illness6. Living with Chronic IllnessPart III. Illness, the Self, and Time7. Time Perspectives and Time Structures8. Timemarkers and Turning Points9. The Self in Time10. Lessons from the Experience of IllnessEpilogueMethodological AppendixNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex