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Record Nr.

UNINA9910271029303321

Autore

Clemente Ignasi

Titolo

Uncertain futures : communication and culture in childhood cancer treatment / / Ignasi Clemente

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-118-90975-5

1-118-90978-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (564 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture

Disciplina

618.92

618.92994

Soggetti

Cancer in children - Spain

Communication and culture - Spain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Children : contributions to communication and illness -- A linguistic anthropologist in a pediatric cancer unit -- Living and dealing with cancer -- Co-constructing uncertainty -- Engaging in communication at Catalonia Hospital -- Patient pressure and medical authority -- The limits of optimism at the end of treatment.

Sommario/riassunto

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 provides new methods for examining cancer communication, including a new multi-layered method to study cancer communicationProvides ethnographic case studies of childhood cancer patients in Spain, using children's own wordsExamines the challenges of how to talk to and how to encourage the patient's involv