A natural history of family cancer : interactional resources for managing illness /
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| Language: | English |
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Cresskill, N.J. :
Hampton Press,
2009
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| Series: | Health communication (Cresskill, N.J.)
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Table of Contents:
- Communication & family cancer journeys
- The "malignancy" phone call corpus : analyzing episodic and longitudinal interactions
- Between dad and son : delivering, receiving, and assimilating bad cancer news
- Between mom and son : talking about "the verdict"
- Making the case for airline compassion fares : the serial organization of problem narratives
- Stability and ambiguity : living in flux with mom's cancer
- State of readiness : figurative expressions and the social construction of emergency preparedness
- So what'd the doctor have to say? : lay reportings about doctors, medical staff, and technical procedures
- She likes the doctor-- Holy Christ come on : positive and negative assessments of doctors and medical care
- "Shit-- yeah, I know : sharing commiserative space and claiming epistemic authority
- Stories-in-a-series : tellings and retellings about cigarettes, devastation, and hair
- Secular, spiritual, and social scientific conceptions of hope (and optimism)
- "Well where's our magic wand Mom-- beats the hell out of me" : the interactional organization of hope and optimism
- Epilogue : journeying through cancer interactionally
- Retrospective interview with family members : eighteen years following diagnosis.
