Conversations About Illness: Family Preoccupations With Bulimia

ISBN-13: 9780805817577 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 168 str.

Wayne A. Beach

Opis

The grandmother-granddaughter conversation examined in this book makes explicit what the detailed study of interaction reveals about two social problems--'bulumia' and 'grandparent caregiving.' For the first time, systematic attentions is given to interactional activities through which family members display ordinary yet contradictory concerns about health and illness. Through analysis of a single audio-recorded and transcribed conversation, the altogether pervasive and often troubled co-existence of family medical predicaments is revealed by treating families as primordial institutional systems whose talk about real or idealized medical concerns is little understood--including attempts to impose and disregard constraints regarding health behavior as displays of institutional orientations and priorities.

Recenzje

"Conversations About Illness presents a compelling human drama....It offers a living lesson in how family members can struggle lovingly, asserting contrasting positions and willingly engaging in conflict. Beach's superb analysis invites increased reader appreciation for the details of this, and all, human interaction."
—Human Studies

"Throughout his book, Beach treats both parties' actions as coordinated, collaborative, and truly interactional. This is a refreshing treatment of a topic--health--which is still too often treated as individualistic and unidirectional. Conversations About Illness offers a first look in a very promising direction; in some ways, it can be seen as only beginning to scratch the analytic surface of this particular interaction, and this approach to health and illness in general."
—Language in Society

Spis treści

Contents: Series Editors' Preface. Introduction. Finding Bulimia. From Troubles to Problems. Overcoming Resistance. Avoiding Ownership. Preoccupations. Interaction and Social Problems. Appendix: Transcription Notation Symbols and G-S Transcript.

O autorze

Wayne A. Beach