| Conversations About Illness: Family Preoccupations With Bulimia Contributor(s): Beach, Wayne A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805817573 ISBN-13: 9780805817577 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $46.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Eating Disorders |
| Dewey: 616.852 |
| LCCN: 96008103 |
| Lexile Measure: 1670 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.99" W x 8.97" (0.62 lbs) 168 pages |