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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ross Gray , Christina SindingPublisher: AltaMira Press Imprint: AltaMira Press Volume: 11 Dimensions: Width: 13.20cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.472kg ISBN: 9780759101463ISBN 10: 0759101469 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 14 July 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Mixed media product Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1 Acknowledgements/ 1: And Now Introducing.../ 2: Social Science Meets Performance/ 3: The Meaning of Metastatic / 4: They Had to Cry/ 5: Scripting/ 6: Stepping into the Spotlights/ 7: We Behaved Badly/ 8: Blocking Notes/ 9: Travelling, Unraveling/ReviewsHats off to these investigators for reflecting both physician and patient perspectives with humor, in a manner that is neither reductive nor competitive, and for honoring profound needs.--Barbara Mains Medscape Women's Health Ejournal, (Posted 10/03/2002) The authors, a social scientist and a psychosocial and behavioral health administrator, describe the process of blending the experience of living with cancer and the dissemination of their findings through a live theater audience...The authors are carefulto create a vivid description of the cast members' involvement in the process and their emotional responses to being so closely aligned with the disease...[They] answer yes to the question, Is the use of theatrical performance an effective way to communicate the results of social science research to healthcare providers and the public?--Janic Phillips, PhD, RN, FAAN Oncology Nursing Forum, Vol. 30, No 5, 2003 Author InformationRoss Gray is Co-Director of the Psychosocial & Behavioural Research Unit at Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre and Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. Christina Sinding is a social scientist with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Community Research Initiative and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |