Living and Dying with Cancer
Living and Dying with Cancer
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Living and Dying with Cancer is a powerful and moving account of the experiences of those affected by one of the most common causes of death in the Western world. Through a series of individual narratives based on extensive interviews carried out by the author, the book explores the impact of being diagnosed with cancer on those with the disease and the people around them. It follows the different trajectories of the disease from the very first symptoms, through treatment to death and shows how the experience of the disease and even the way it develops is affected by the social context of the people involved, as well as their own physical and psychological characteristics. This book will be an invaluable resource not only for social scientists and health professionals but also for those coming to terms with the impact of cancer on their own lives.
- Accessible and moving account of people diagnosed with and dying of cancer
- Places death and dying within a social context
- Draws on compelling empirical research ranging from longitudinal interviews to hospice based case studies
Reviews & endorsements
"Angela Armstrong-Coster's book Living and Dying with Cancer is an excellent resource for health care professionals working in clinical areas where patients with cancer are cared for."
-Katherine Michaels, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Pain-Talk
"The voices Armstrong-Coster allows us to hear are so powerful that I found myself wanting to skip directly from one participant to the next...The strength of Armstrong-Corster's work lies in her longitudinal interviewing...The quotations from respondents are generously long and rich in content, and few researchers follow a cohort for 6 years."
-Arthur W. Frank, University of Calgary, Qualitative Sociology
Product details
August 2004Paperback
9780521546676
210 pages
229 × 152 × 11 mm
0.29kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface. Opening the silence
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Mortality in modern culture
- 2. Stage 1 - departure
- 3. Stage 2 - exploration
- 4. Stage 3 - anticipation
- 5. Stage 4 - destination
- Last words
- References
- Index.
