Rethinking Experiences Of Childhood Cancer: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Chronic Childhood Illness - Softcover

Dixon-Woods, .

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335212557 ISBN 13: 9780335212552

Verlag: Open University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

"The experiences of the families rang true throughout. I have experienced many of these personally. ...It made me think differently about my personal experience as a parent of a child with cancer and my son's current social experiences."
Macmillan Cancer Support
This book offers a radical critique of existing psychosocial research on children's experiences of cancer and proposes an alternative view informed by recent interpretive perspectives. Exploring topics from obtaining a diagnosis of childhood cancer through to sharing decision-making and communication, it reviews a wide-ranging body of research and theory on childhood, chronic illness, and cancer. The book also examines research that has focused on how parents and other family members experience childhood illness.
Written by a sociologist, a psychologist and a practising paediatric oncologist, this book is unique in its approach and provides key reading across traditional disciplinary boundaries. In particular, the book highlights the emerging contribution of interpretive work to understanding chronic childhood illness and further develops the dialogue that has only recently emerged between the sociology of illness and the sociology of childhood.
Rethinking Experiences of Childhood Cancer is aimed at researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of social science, childhood studies, nursing, medicine, mental health care, social work, clinical psychology and other professions allied to medicine, and will also be of interest to families who have been affected by childhood cancer.

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Mary Dixon-Woods is Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Health in the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester. Her interests are in the application of social science methods and theory to the study of potentially "vulnerable" groups in healthcare, including children. Bridget Young is Senior Lecturer and Director of Communication Skills in the Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool. Her research interests are in how identity, roles and relationships affect people's experiences of health and illness, particularly children's and parents' experiences of illness and disability in childhood. David Heney is Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Oncology and Medical Education, University of Leicester, and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Oncology, Children's Hospital, Leicester Royal Infirmary. He has research interests in ethical issues in caring for children, communication with children, and family roles and functioning in childhood cancer.

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• Verlag: Open University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0335212557
• ISBN 13: 9780335212552
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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