How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying

Author:   Leslie Swartz
Publisher:   Wits University Press
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Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 March 2021
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How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying


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Author:   Leslie Swartz
Publisher:   Wits University Press
Imprint:   Wits University Press
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9781776146949


ISBN 10:   1776146948
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Finding Chapter 1 The Weeping Rose Chapter 2 Be sociable Chapter 3 Goodwill Chapter 4 The trouble with nerves Chapter 5 The archives Chapter 6 Nadine Gordimer, Anne Frank, Elsie Cohen and me Part II: Losing Chapter 7 Shouting loud Chapter 8 Coming home Chapter 9 Avoiding surgery Chapter 10 Closing In Chapter 11 Scar tissue Chapter 12 Care Chapter 13 What ends? Part III: Afterwords Chapter 14 Death admin Chapter 15 How I lost my mother Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements

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Leslie Swartz is a clinical psychologist and a distinguished professor of psychology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He also has honourary attachments to University of Johannesburg and Western Sydney University, Australia. He is an experienced researcher known especially for his work on disability studies, disability rights, and mental health issues in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa. He has received numerous awards, including, in 2019, the Science-for-Society Gold Medal from the Academy of Science of South Africa. In addition to his scientific work, he has an interest in the use of creativity and the arts to effect social change, and he has worked on a number of projects using photography and other forms of visual expression for research and activist purposes. His memoir Able-Bodied: Scenes from a curious life (Zebra Press, 2010), received considerable critical acclaim.

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