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Sick Body

Sick Body is a theoretical construct within the academic study of Embodiment that denotes a phenomenological and socio-medical instantiation of corporeal dysfunctionality, distinguished by its integration of subjective experience, cultural inscription, and pathophysiological manifestation in the analysis of bodily states under illness.

188

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13.5K

Citations

282

Authors

154

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

18

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Publications

188

The Wounded Storyteller: Body Illness, and Ethics

Nature Medicine · 1996 · 3K citations

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The Body, Identity, and Self: Adapting To Impairment

Kathy Charmaz · Sociological Quarterly · 1995 · 890 citations

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The Disappearance of the Sick-Man from Medical Cosmology, 1770-1870

Nick Jewson · Sociology · 1976 · 508 citations

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The Role of Bodily Illness in the Mental Life of Children

Anna Freud · The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child · 1952 · 423 citations

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Communication in Nursing Practice

Lambrini Kourkouta, Ioanna V. Papathanasiou · Materia Socio Medica · 2014 · 409 citations

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Authors

282

  1. JL
    Joan L. Bottorff

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    3 publications · 283 citations

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  2. AW
    Arthur W. Frank

    University of Calgary, Canada

    3 publications · 111 citations

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  3. JM
    Janice M. Morse

    University of Alberta, Canada

    3 publications · 283 citations

    3

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  4. SA
    Sally A. Hutchinson

    University of Florida Health Science Center, United States

    3 publications · 283 citations

    3

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  5. HN
    Hannah Newton

    University of Exeter, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 37 citations

    2

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Institutions

154

  1. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    462 citations

  2. University of Exeter

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    87 citations

  3. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    742 citations

  4. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    258 citations

  5. University of Warwick

    Coventry, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    206 citations

  6. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    220 citations

  7. California University of Pennsylvania

    California, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    232 citations

  8. University of Calgary

    Calgary, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    94 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 8 publications · 476 citations

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  2. PubMed

    Repository · 7 publications · 192 citations

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  3. Annals of Internal Medicine

    5 publications · 435 citations

    5

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  4. Sociology of Health & Illness

    4 publications · 98 citations

    4

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  5. Social History of Medicine

    4 publications · 109 citations

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