In the Shadow of Illness by Myra Bluebond-Langner
This text suggests that understanding the impact of the illness of a chronically ill child on their family lies not in identifying deficiencies in the lives of those affected, but in appreciating how family members carry on with their lives in the face of the disease's intrusion.
"Winner of the 1997 Charles ACorr Award in Literature"
"In the Shadow of Illness is a beautifully written, well-organized book that is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the impact of chronic illness on the family and the factors that affect the coping mechanisms over the trajectory of chronic illness. An important source of information and understanding for families who find themselves in the shadow of illness."---Kirby Pope, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
"Myra Bluebond-Langner gives us a framework of understanding how families—siblings as well as parents—move through their understanding of the condition, and their coping strategies, by redefining 'normal' family life to include routine CF care and reassessing their family priorities. She has done this with great skill and sensitivity." * Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry *
"I strongly recommend this book to anyone involved with families of children with CF and potentially with other chronic life-threatening illnesses. There is no question that it provides new and valid insight concerning parent and sibling adaptation." * Omega *
"An important contribution to the ethnography of illness experience. . . .This book will be of great value to researchers and clinicians with interests in how families cope with chronic illness, life-threatening conditions, and genetic disorders."---Joan Ablon, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
"In the Shadow of Illness is a beautifully written, well-organized book that is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the impact of chronic illness on the family and the factors that affect the coping mechanisms over the trajectory of chronic illness. An important source of information and understanding for families who find themselves in the shadow of illness."---Kirby Pope, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
"Myra Bluebond-Langner gives us a framework of understanding how families—siblings as well as parents—move through their understanding of the condition, and their coping strategies, by redefining 'normal' family life to include routine CF care and reassessing their family priorities. She has done this with great skill and sensitivity." * Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry *
"I strongly recommend this book to anyone involved with families of children with CF and potentially with other chronic life-threatening illnesses. There is no question that it provides new and valid insight concerning parent and sibling adaptation." * Omega *
"An important contribution to the ethnography of illness experience. . . .This book will be of great value to researchers and clinicians with interests in how families cope with chronic illness, life-threatening conditions, and genetic disorders."---Joan Ablon, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Myra Bluebond-Langner is professor emerita at University College London and Board of Governors Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Rutgers University. She is also the author of The Private Worlds of Dying Children (Princeton), winner of the Margaret Mead Award.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691027838 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691027838 |
| Title | In the Shadow of Illness |
| Author | Myra Bluebond-Langner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1996-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 328 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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