Kenny Katherine (University Of Sydney Australia) - Survivorship: A Sociology Of Cancer In Everyday Life - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This book provides a contemporary and comprehensive examination of cancer in everyday life drawing on qualitative research with people living with cancer their family members and health professionals. It explores the evolving and enduring affects of cancer for individuals families and communities with attention to the changing dynamics of survivorship including social relations around waiting uncertainty hope wilfulness obligation responsibility and healing. Challenging simplistic deployments of survivorship and drawing on contemporary and classical social theory it critically examines survivorship through innovative qualitative methodologies including interviews focus groups participant produced photos and solicited diaries. In assembling this panoramic view of cancer in the twenty - first century it also enlivens core debates in sociology including questions around individual agency subjectivity temporality normativity resistance affect and embodiment. A thoughtful account of cancer embedded in the undulations of the everyday narrated by its subjects and those who informally and formally care for them Survivorship: A Sociology of Cancer in Everyday Life outlines new ways of thinking about survivorship for sociologists health and medical researchers and those working in cancer care settings.
Title: Survivorship: A Sociology Of Cancer In Everyday Life
Author(s): Kenny Katherine (University Of Sydney Australia)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Barcode: 9780815360315
Pages: 162 Pages, 4 Halftones, Black And White; 4 Illustrations, Black And White
Publication Date: 3/24/2021
Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
Category: Oncology