A natural history of family cancer
Subtitle: interactional resources for managing illness
By: Wayne A. Beach.
Series: Health communication; Health communication (Cresskill, N.J.)
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cresskill, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781572736900; 9781572736917
Subjects: Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships; Communication in medicine; Neoplasms -- psychology; Adaptation, Psychological; Communication; Family -- psychology; Social Support
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Communication & family cancer journeys; title: The "malignancy" phone call corpus : analyzing episodic and longitudinal interactions; title: Between dad and son : delivering, receiving, and assimilating bad cancer news; title: Between mom and son : talking about "the verdict"; title: Making the case for airline compassion fares : the serial organization of problem narratives; title: Stability and ambiguity : living in flux with mom's cancer; title: State of readiness : figurative expressions and the social construction of emergency preparedness; title: So what'd the doctor have to say? : lay reportings about doctors, medical staff, and technical procedures; title: She likes the doctor... "Ho:ly Christ come on" : positive and negative assessments of doctors and medical care; title: "Sh:i:t... yeah, I know." : sharing commiserative space and claiming epistemic authority; title: Stories-in-a-series : tellings and retellings about cigarettes, devastation, and hair; title: Secular, spiritual, and social scientific conceptions of hope (and optimism); title: "Well where's our magic wand Mom... beats the hell out of me." : the interactional organization of hope and optimism; title: Epilogue : journeying through cancer interactionally; title: Retrospective interview with family members : eighteen years following diagnosis.