Conversing with Cancer
How to Ask Questions, Find and Share Information, and Make the Best Decisions
Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the authors
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction to Conversing with Cancer
- Chapter 2. Talk, Talk: Understanding Health Communication, Health Literacy, and Cancer
- Exercise & Discussion
- Chapter 3. The Big C: Culture and Cancer Care
- Exercise & Discussion
- Chapter 4. Who’s Who: Social Identity and Cancer Care
- Exercise & Discussion
- Chapter 5. Citizens of Cancer Land: Cancer Communication Across a Lifetime
- Exercise & Discussion
- Chapter 6. Navigating the Landscape: Communication in Cancer Care Organizations
- Exercise & Discussion
- Chapter 7. What’s Up, Doc?: Patients and Healthcare Providers in Conversation
- Exercise & Discussion
- Chapter 8. Giving Care, Taking Care: Caregivers and Communication
- Exercise & Discussion
- Chapter 9. Warrior or Citizen?: Metaphors and Messages in Cancer Care
- Exercise & Discussion
- Chapter 10. Can You Hear Me Now?: Technology and Communication in Cancer Care
- Exercise & Discussion
- Chapter 11. Extending the Conversation: A New Theoretical Model for Cancer Communication
- Exercise & Discussion
- Chapter 12. Epilogue: Mottos Moving Forward
- Appendix A: Glossary
- Appendix B: Suggested Online Resources for Expanded Discussion
- Index
- Series index
Table of contents
Chapter 1. Introduction to Conversing with Cancer
Chapter 2. Talk, Talk: Understanding Health Communication, Health Literacy, and Cancer
Chapter 3. The Big C: Culture and Cancer Care
Chapter 4. Who’s Who: Social Identity and Cancer Care
Chapter 5. Citizens of Cancer Land: Cancer Communication Across a Lifetime
Chapter 6. Navigating the Landscape: Communication in Cancer Care Organizations
Chapter 7. What’s Up, Doc?: Patients and Healthcare Providers in Conversation
Exercise & Discussion ←7 | 8→
Chapter 8. Giving Care, Taking Care: Caregivers and Communication
Chapter 9. Warrior or Citizen?: Metaphors and Messages in Cancer Care
Chapter 10. Can You Hear Me Now?: Technology and Communication in Cancer Care
Chapter 11. Extending the Conversation: A New Theoretical Model for Cancer Communication
Chapter 12. Epilogue: Mottos Moving Forward
Appendix B: Suggested Online Resources for Expanded Discussion
We extend sincere thanks and acknowledgement to Howie Giles, a strong mentor in the field of communication. We also acknowledge the many at Peter Lang for making this book and the Language as Social Action series happen. We are truly grateful for this opportunity to contribute to the ongoing conversation about health communication and cancer care and to make a difference in the lives of patients and their families.
Sincere thanks to Chapman University undergraduate students Shoshanna Feld-Sobol and Brooke Grogan. Also, thanks to graduate students Mike Gravagno, Samantha Mountjoy, Mackenzie Bates, Alysia Hendry, and Devin Valasco for the many ways they helped shape this book, especially the penultimate chapter and the glossary. Also, thanks to Mary Cantrell, Brigid Leahy, Paulette Livers, and Patricia Grace King for their editorial acumen and suggestions as we drafted early chapters. Finally, to those many individuals who have written about their experiences in their own books and blogs and, in some cases, in personal exchanges with us, we are grateful to be able to talk about their stories in Conversing with Cancer.
Each chapter begins with an epigraph drawn from a poem. We thank the authors for their permission (with all rights reserved) to include an excerpt or whole poem, as space and topic allowed:←9 | 10→
“at the doctor’s” by Ivy Alvarez, Mortal. Washington, DC: Red Morning Press, 2006. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Triolet on Beating the Odds” by permission of author Lanette Cadle.
“Exoskeleton” by Risa Denenberg, Mean Distance from the Sun, Aldrich Press, 2013. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Chemo Room” by permission of author Penny Harter.
“Diagnosis” by permission of author Karen Paul Holmes.
“Google Moon (2)” by permission of author Anna Leahy.
“The Habits of Light” by Anna Leahy, Aperture, Shearsman Books, 2017. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“In the ICU” by Lesléa Newman, I Carry My Mother, Headmistress Press, 2015. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Biopsy” by permission of author Stacy Nigliazzo.
“Cancer Diagnosis” by permission of author Marjorie Maddox and translator Rei Berroa; italics from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2, lines 133–134. The English original appeared in Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare, University of Iowa Press, and Local News from Someplace Else, Wipf and Stock Publishers. The Spanish translation appeared in Luna Luna.
“The Music Box” by Frank L. Meyskens Jr., Believing in Today, Fithian Press, 2014. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
“Something Understood by permission of author Anya Silver.
In addition, excerpts from the blog of Patricia Grace King and from the Caring Bridge journal of Adam Schmitz were used as chapter epigraphs and discussed in the text. Patricia Grace King and Wooten Lee Schmitz graciously gave permission for use of these excerpts.←10 | 11→
Introduction to Conversing with Cancer
When you feel something not-neck in your neck,
you can’t possibly think breast
and don’t realize that the Latin for neck
is cervix, that shape is one kind of connection,
that metastasis means transition or removal or
going somewhere else. And you want to be elsewhere
or you want to be here but otherwise,
and that doesn’t mean you don’t know the odds.
When I Google the Moon, it looks like
a milky mammogram: dense cells implied
Details
- Pages
- 268
- Publication Year
- 2018
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433133541
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433139000
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433139017
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781433139024
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781433133534
- DOI
- 10.3726/b13076
- DOI
- 10.3726/b13286
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2018 (January)
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2018. 268 pp.
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