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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.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l'auteur
Jennifer M. Hawkins is assistant professor of communication studies at Saint Cloud State University.Peter M. Kellett is professor of communication studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.Finn Thorbjørn Hansen is professor in applied philosophy at the University of Aalborg.Finn Thorbjørn Hansen is professor in applied philosophy at the University of Aalborg.Jessica M. W. Kratzer is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northern Kentucky University. Peter M. Kellett is professor of communication studies at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.Deleasa Randall-Griffiths is professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Ashland University.
