Healing Rites of Passage: Salutogenesis in Serious Fun Camps

ISBN-13: 9780367585075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 146 str.

Peter James Kearney

Opis

This book examines the role of the ‘fun camps’ for children recovering from life-threatening illnesses, exploring how the camp experience helps to bring about healing by employing central concepts from sociology and anthropology, such as 'liminality', 'mimesis' and 'salutogenesis'.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Series Editor’s Foreword

Preamble

Introduction

1. Hope and Heartbreak in Paediatric Oncology

2. Serious Fun Experiences

3. Mirage: The Medical Paradigm of Health

4. Salutogenic Experiences: Liberating the Butterfly

5. Healing Rites of Passage

6. Genesis and Mimesis

7. Triangles of Desire: Mime Artists on a Pedestal

8. The Magi: Three Wise Men Bearing Gifts

9. Genealogy of the Camp Embrace

10. Serious Fun International

Conclusion

References

Index

O autorze

Peter James Kearney is Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics and Occasional Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland.