Uncertain Futures: Communication and Culture in Childhood Cancer Treatment
Ignasi Clemente
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Description for Uncertain Futures: Communication and Culture in Childhood Cancer Treatment
Hardback. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: CFGR; JHMC; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 252 x 17. Weight in Grams: 536.
This book examines children and young people's attempts to participate in conversations about their own treatment throughout uncertain cancer trajectories, including the events leading up to diagnosis, treatment, remission, relapse, and cure or death. Clearly and compellingly written, Clemente relies on a new multi-layered method to identify six cancer communication strategies Illustrates that communication is central to how children, parents, and healthcare professionals constitute, influence, and make sense of the social worlds they inhabit--or that they want to inhabit Provides ethnographic case studies of childhood cancer patients in Spain, using ... Read more
This book examines children and young people's attempts to participate in conversations about their own treatment throughout uncertain cancer trajectories, including the events leading up to diagnosis, treatment, remission, relapse, and cure or death. Clearly and compellingly written, Clemente relies on a new multi-layered method to identify six cancer communication strategies Illustrates that communication is central to how children, parents, and healthcare professionals constitute, influence, and make sense of the social worlds they inhabit--or that they want to inhabit Provides ethnographic case studies of childhood cancer patients in Spain, using ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
527g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118909713
SKU
V9781118909713
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Ref
99-15
About Ignasi Clemente
Ignasi Clemente is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Hunter College, CUNY, USA. His research interests include sociocultural and communicative aspects of pain and suffering, childhood studies, and embodied communication. His research on chronically ill children has been published in journals including Social Science and Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, and Communication and Medicine. Among others, he ... Read more
Reviews for Uncertain Futures: Communication and Culture in Childhood Cancer Treatment
...opens up broader margins of reflection about how medical diagnoses, and in general medical communication, are delivered and negotiated and provides the reader with extensive references with which the theoretical discussion is constantly confronted and challenged...Clemente is surely paving the way toward a more fertile and effective collaboration between medical and linguistic anthropology... - Letizia Bonanno, AAA Book Forum, ... Read more