Young People Living With Cancer - Implications for Policy and Practice

Informationen zum Autor Anne Grinyer is a medical sociologist based in the Institute for Health Research and the Innovation and Enterprise Unit, both at Lancaster University, UK. She is author of Cancer in Young Adults (Open University Press, 2002), based on the accounts of parents caring for a young adult son or daughter with cancer. Klappentext This book provides an understanding of what it is like to be a young adult living with cancer at a time when age appropriate care is the focus of policy discussion. First hand accounts of the experience of having cancer in young adulthood contribute to the insight necessary to the provision of care. The text can be used as a contribution to policy and practice to enhance compliance and consequently to improve outcomes. Zusammenfassung This book uses original data gathered from in-depth research to present an account of what it is like to be an adolescent or young adult living with cancer. Inhaltsverzeichnis Participants Foreword Setting the scene Diagnosis Settings of care Loss of independence Disruption of the life trajectory: the impact on 'normality', life plans and friendships The effect of the illness on physical appearance Fertility and sexuality The implications for policy and practice Appendix References

Product details

• Authors: Anne Grinyer
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2007
• EAN: 9780335221547
• ISBN: 978-0-335-22154-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Health & Social Welfare; UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Health & Social Welfare
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories