Bøker av Wayne A. Beach

Family members and cancer patients routinely talk about and through cancer on the telephone. Yet little is known about the social organization of these conversations. This title offers an examination of the natural history of one family's 13 month journey through a wife/mother/sister's terminal cancer.

This text uses conversation analysis methodology to explore the response of family members to eating disorders. The result is a glimpse into the anxieties, wishes, and resistences associated with such disorders. The book concentrates on the problems of bulimia and grandparent caregiving.