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Women's narratives of health disruption and illness : within and across their life stories / edited by Jennifer M. Hawkins and Peter M. Kellett.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Lexington studies in health communication.
- Lexington studies in health communication
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication in medicine.
- Women--Health and hygiene.
- Women.
- Women--Diseases--Social aspects.
- Health Communication.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (237 pages).
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2019.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-3905-2
- 1-4985-9264-3
- OCLC:
- 1097365724
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