MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS - THE EXPERIENCE OF A DISEASE

This article utilises both autobiography and biography to explore the meaning of the diagnosis of a disabling disease for a young woman. The author makes use not only of her own experience, but also of interviews with members of her own family to make sense of what is happening to her. Her methodology is thus feminist in conception, and it utilises concepts from anthropology to demonstrate that both the construction of illness and the decipherment of its meaning have to be placed in a social context.