1. Illness and Obligation ; 2. Bearing Responsibility ; 3. Managing Emotions ; 4. Family Ties ; 5. The Four Cs ; 6. Surviving the System ; 7. Caring in Postmodern America
David A. Karp is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. His book Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness (OUP, 1996) won the Charles Horton Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
"In this excellent, riveting work, David Karp explores the quandary
of familial caregivers and how ethical obligations to those with
emotional disturbances shed light on the ties that bind the whole
of humanity together. I found in this remarkable book a clear moral
vision ensconced in a series of page turning portraits depicting
the mentally ill and of those who love them." --Lauren Slater,
author of Prozac Diary and Lying: A Metaphorical
Memoir
"David Karp has captured the essence of caring and caregiving in
his fine book. For family members of individuals with
schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness, and severe depression, he
accurately describes 'the social tango between emotionally ill
people and those who try to help them.' This will be a useful book
for families of mentally ill individuals...I strongly recommend
it." --E. Fuller Torrey, M.D., Executive Director, Stanley
Foundation Research
Programs, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Research
Institute, and author of Surviving Schizophrenia
"David Karp is a great ethnographer of disrupted lives, offering
profound truths in clear prose, combining empathy with analysis.
Burden of Sympathy gives eloquent voice to care givers; I know no
other book that tells their story with such respect. This brilliant
study offers personal validation, a model study of suffering and
moral decision making, and a profound challenge to policy makers."
-- Arthur W. Frank, Professor, Department of Sociology,
University of Calgary and author of At the Will of the Body:
Reflections on Illness and The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness,
and Ethics
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