“Illness History” of Person Living with Diabetes and Practices of Everyday Management of Chronic Illness

This master's work is devoted to the study of the subjective experience of life with a chronic illness. According to this work, we aspire to develop and supplement the existing discussion of domestic social studies of the disease and conceptualize the narrative essence of the chronic ailment taking into account of the biographical perspectives, life experience and practices of disease management. The purpose of this work is to analyze everyday management practices and methods of narrative chronic illness using the example of type 1 diabetes mellitus. The results of the study are concentrated in three main areas: firstly, it is the specificity of the clinical contacts of people living with type 1 diabetes; secondly, the subjective meanings of the disease and everyday practices of management of a chronic disease; thirdly, the features of designing one's own medical history and the specificity of embedding a chronic disease in the narrator's biographical project. The empirical base of the project consists of 20 deep keynote interviews. The dates of realization of the field stage of the research: January - March 2017.