ABSTRACT

Multiple Sclerosis affects hopes and expectations, restructures relationships, modifies careers and changes lives. It is a disease of variable onset, problematic diagnosis, unpredicatable prognosis and no effective treatment. Using unique autobiographical accounts of people with the disease, Ian Robinson sensitively portrays the difficulties and frustrations of the struggle to make sense of the clinical diagnosis and management of an illness which is effectively a way of life.

chapter |15 pages

Solving the puzzle

From the onset of symptoms to the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

chapter |20 pages

Life with multiple sclerosis

Subjective experience and the disease

chapter |27 pages

Life with multiple sclerosis

Social context and consequences

chapter |24 pages

Sources of support

Possibilities and problems

chapter |12 pages

Making sense of the future

Maintaining faith and hope