Uncertain Futures: Communication and Culture in Childhood Cancer Treatment

This book examines children and young people s attempts toparticipate in conversations about their own treatment throughoutuncertain cancer trajectories, including the events leading up todiagnosis, treatment, remission, relapse, and cure or death. Clearly and compellingly written, Clemente provides new methodsfor examining cancer communication, including a new multi–layeredmethod to study cancer communication Provides ethnographic case studies of childhood cancer patientsin Spain, using children s own words Examines the challenges of how to talk to and how to encouragethe patient s involvement in the discussion of theirtreatment Argues that communication should be adjusted to thechildren s own needs, and that children s own questionscan indicate how much or little they want to be involved Gives a new understanding of patienthood andchildhood

• ISBN: 978-1-118-90971-3
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 19/05/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés