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Kearney, Peter James

 
9780415791243: Healing Rites of Passage: Salutogenesis in Serious Fun Camps (The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization)
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ISBN 10: 0415791243 ISBN 13: 9780415791243
Editorial: Routledge, 2018

Sinopsis

This book examines how ‘Therapeutic Recreation’ transforms the social health of children enduring or recovering from life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and leukaemia. With studies drawn from ‘Serious Fun’ projects in the USA, the UK, France, Ireland and Israel, the author explores how camp experiences in convivial circumstances help to bring about healing. Employing central concepts from sociology and anthropology, such as 'liminality', 'mimesis' and 'salutogenesis', Healing Rites of Passage explains why a brief secluded holiday can reform the campers’ shared situation of life-threatening illnesses towards health and flourishing. The whole process can be understood in terms of a 'rite of passage', as structured camp experiences enable children to shed previous ‘sick roles’ and pass through a series of challenges in order to achieve social re-integration with a renewed zest for living. An empirically grounded study that reveals the analytic value of master concepts in the social sciences, this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of sociology, anthropology, paediatrics, social theory and the sociology of health, illness and medicine.

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

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415791243
ISBN 13 
9780415791243
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
168
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