By Margaret Vickers
There are more and more operating adults suffering from continual medical conditions which may be principally invisible to these round them. during this publication, the writer explores the 'silent' challenge of unseen disorder at paintings. the writer employs qualitative learn how to problem the concept when you glance good, you need to be good. whereas demonstrating the effectiveness of this arguable technique, she makes use of it to reveal the voices of a gaggle of marginalized place of work actors who've hitherto remained unheard.
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They do this with confidence and with incomplete knowledge about illness. They also do this with the socially predetermined negative attitudes towards illness and disease, and the attendant assumptions of reduced functionality for the individual. Standard, normative modes of ‘getting the job done’ may be inappropriate for people with invisible conditions to conform to, although this would not necessarily deter them from being able to do the job. For example, the expectation of people arriving at the office early and leaving late may leave one with a chronic illness exhausted and ineffective.
For the person who chooses partial or total secrecy as a policy, Goffman (1963: 57) has alerted us to the stresses associated with the fear of being found out; to the constant tension of who may know and who does not; and how, where and when to reveal the discrediting secret. In the case of those with potentially life-threatening conditions such as heart disease, diabetes or asthma, non-disclosure of such conditions to colleagues may result in a serious threat to safety, with no one knowing how to respond appropriately in an emergency.
I believed it too. Together we strapped ourselves in to weather the consequences of our mutual belief in the value of this research. It seems that most people want to leave something of themselves to others. When one is dying, this is even stronger. The actual benefit to the participant is hard to define. The hurt experienced by researcher and participant is difficult to endure. : 65–66) I move now to introduce the theoretical groundings for the some of the stories, interpretations and questions that follow.