This paper discusses the microgeographies of unemployed women with multiple sclerosis,
as they manage the physical, social and economic consequences of their illness. Recent …

This qualitative study examines how individuals in an advanced stage of multiple sclerosis
(MS) who live at home, accommodate to their illness. The downward phase in the illness …

ISABEL DYCK he insistence that space is socially constructed, dialectic, and of unstable
meaning has brought new interests and methodologies to medical geography research …

We conducted a qualitative inquiry in order to describe the meaning of women's experiences
of living with multiple sclerosis (MS). Multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoimmune disease of …

This paper describes the lifeworld of one individual, Ann, in an attempt to elucidate the
existential impact of early stage multiple sclerosis. Drawing on Ann's own reflections …

Personal accounts of illness have always proved difficult to analyse. Using the distinction
between personal narratives of illness, social careers of sickness and physical courses of …

The authors explored women's strategies for achieving quality of life with multiple sclerosis
(MS) through interviews with 27 women, most of whom had lived with MS for more than 5 …

The recent call for the reorientation of analysis in medical geography to more critical
approaches has been met with both enthusiasm and caution. Critical theories of health and …

Within medical geography there has been a surge of interest in applying critical concepts in
social theory to empirical settings, including those for persons with disabilities. The ways …

In this paper I reflect upon my personal experience of chronic progressive multiple sclerosis
in order to provide a phenomenological account of the human experience of disability. In …