
Healing Rites of Passage
Salutogenesis in Serious Fun Camps
Peter James Kearney(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 17. October 2018
Book
Hardback
146 pages
978-0-415-79124-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen, 1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild, 1 s/w Zeichnung
1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
388 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-79124-3 (9780415791243)
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Peter James Kearney is Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics and Occasional Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland.
Content
Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Foreword
Preamble
Introduction
1. Hope and Heartbreak in Paediatric Oncology
2. Serious Fun Experiences
3. Mirage: The Medical Paradigm of Health
4. Salutogenic Experiences: Liberating the Butterfly
5. Healing Rites of Passage
6. Genesis and Mimesis
7. Triangles of Desire: Mime Artists on a Pedestal
8. The Magi: Three Wise Men Bearing Gifts
9. Genealogy of the Camp Embrace
10. Serious Fun International
Conclusion
References
Index
Series Editor's Foreword
Preamble
Introduction
1. Hope and Heartbreak in Paediatric Oncology
2. Serious Fun Experiences
3. Mirage: The Medical Paradigm of Health
4. Salutogenic Experiences: Liberating the Butterfly
5. Healing Rites of Passage
6. Genesis and Mimesis
7. Triangles of Desire: Mime Artists on a Pedestal
8. The Magi: Three Wise Men Bearing Gifts
9. Genealogy of the Camp Embrace
10. Serious Fun International
Conclusion
References
Index