Recipient of the Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Studentship at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
My PhD project focuses on the insufciently researched topic of ‘contested illnesses’. The study will explore the experience of healthcare in Britain for those with Fibromyalgia since its recognition as an illness in 1976. This historical study seeks to understand the impact of classifcatory and diagnostic changes to Fibromyalgia on the experience of care for patients living with this illness; how changes in healthcare regulations and practitioners’ perceptions of Fibromyalgia shape the lived experience of the illness and impact the healthcare experiences of
these patients.
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