Women's Narratives of Health Disruption and Illness

Within and Across their Life Stories

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through narrative accounts, this book explores how women experience the health disruptions and illnesses that impact and often span their lives. The contributors examine how women's broader and ongoing life stories impact and are impacted by health disruptions and illnesses.

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Produktdetails

• Lexington Studies in Health Communication
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781498592635
• ISBN-10: 1498592635
• Artikelnr.: 55500993

Autorenporträt

Edited by Peter M. Kellett and Jennifer M. Hawkins - Contributions by Kasey Bruss; Krista Calvin; Jamie Cobb; Leda Cooks; Ruthann Fox-Hines; Jennifer Hall; Jennifer M. Hawkins; Laura Hope-Gill; Jessica M. W. Kratzer; Peter M. Kellett; Robin McIntyre; Dele

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: This Wasn't How the Story was Supposed to Go: Navigating Unmet
Expectations During High-Risk Pregnancies Chapter 2: "Giving Birth in a
Distant Land: Patienthood and Self-transformation of Another Kind" Chapter
3: A Decade Navigating Food Allergies: A Mother's Narrative Chapter 4:
Growing Up with a Chronic Illness: Easy to Conceal, Even Easier to Forget
Chapter 5: Smoking: A Lifelong Legacy Chapter 6: Through the Glass Darkly:
How We Fill a Diagnosis with Meaning Chapter 7: Living with Interstitial
Cystitis: An Autoethnographic Account of Developing and Coping with a
Chronic Condition Chapter 8: Narrating Menopause with English as a Second
Language Chapter 9: I Like to Read, Play Cribbage-Oh, and I Have
Alzheimer's: Managing Interpersonal Relationships and Early Onset
Alzheimer's Chapter 10: Sylvia's Story/The Story of Sylvia: Narrating the
Personal and Relational in Patienthood Chapter 11: Linked Lives: A
Narrative Account of Positivity and Dialectics in Mother-Daughter
Communication Near the End of Her Life Chapter 12: A Narrative Account of
Father-Daughter Conversations Near the End of His Life Chapter 13: A
Narrative Legacy of Family Caregiving