Sentence examples for contested illness from inspiring English sources
Accordingly, "contested illness sufferers are burdened by the cultural meaning of a medically invisible condition in an era of high-tech biomedicine " (Conrad and Barker, 2010).
(p.62) [ 52] Causes of 'mental illness' are contested.
Similar findings have been reported regarding the health care experiences of individuals diagnosed with contested chronic illnesses such as fibromyalgia syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis, wherein such individuals have been made to feel at odds with the Canadian health system [ 37, 38].
(We should note what counts as a malfunction is often contested in psychology and neuroscience. Furthermore, the presence of a malfunction does not suffice for mental illness.
While effective consultations involve co-constructed meaning, with patients drawing on illness schema and doctors drawing on disease schema [ 22], in these consultations, meaning is contested or confused [ 23].
While this perception may exist for many nurses, this is a much contested issue in the existing literature and there has been no firm evidence that patients experiencing mental illness are any more or less likely to engage in violence [ 34– 34].
Everything else was contested.
"They contested every shot.
The elections were not contested.
Angry creditors contested his will.
