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

• Autore: Clemente Ignasi
• Pubblicazione: West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (564 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.92; 618.92994
• Soggetto topico: Cancer in children - Spain; Communication and culture - Spain
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Uncertain futures
• ISBN: 1-118-90975-5; 1-118-90978-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910271029303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell studies in discourse and culture.