La carrière cancéreuse des enfants malades

When children are diagnosed with cancer, they are removed from their usual social spaces for a long period of time to be treated in the hospital, a place where they live, experience, and learn. How does one become a child with cancer? How does one become a “cured” child? What is the work of self-tra...

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Autor principal: Hélène Lecompte
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b307aba2212d457c85ac31fd4dd6b97a2021-12-02T10:49:23ZLa carrière cancéreuse des enfants malades2111-502810.4000/anthropologiesante.10342https://doaj.org/article/b307aba2212d457c85ac31fd4dd6b97a2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/10342https://doaj.org/toc/2111-5028When children are diagnosed with cancer, they are removed from their usual social spaces for a long period of time to be treated in the hospital, a place where they live, experience, and learn. How does one become a child with cancer? How does one become a “cured” child? What is the work of self-transformation undertaken by and in the hospital and what are long-term dispositions acquired? Based on ethnographic research, this article analyzes the experience of children from the first symptoms to the cancer after-life, using the concept of career. It describes the child’s cancer career and its different phases: the entry into the career, the way children are engaged in it, life in the hospital institution and the maintenance of the career despite the end of treatment. By understanding the process, from the first symptoms to the after-cancer, we also analyze how the experience of cancer and hospital contributes to shape former sick children’s self-identity.Hélène LecompteAssociation Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santéarticlecareercancerchildrenhealingformer patientsAnthropologyGN1-890FRAnthropologie & Santé, Vol 23 (2021)
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cancer
children
healing
former patients
Anthropology
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cancer
children
healing
former patients
Anthropology
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Hélène Lecompte
La carrière cancéreuse des enfants malades
description When children are diagnosed with cancer, they are removed from their usual social spaces for a long period of time to be treated in the hospital, a place where they live, experience, and learn. How does one become a child with cancer? How does one become a “cured” child? What is the work of self-transformation undertaken by and in the hospital and what are long-term dispositions acquired? Based on ethnographic research, this article analyzes the experience of children from the first symptoms to the cancer after-life, using the concept of career. It describes the child’s cancer career and its different phases: the entry into the career, the way children are engaged in it, life in the hospital institution and the maintenance of the career despite the end of treatment. By understanding the process, from the first symptoms to the after-cancer, we also analyze how the experience of cancer and hospital contributes to shape former sick children’s self-identity.
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title La carrière cancéreuse des enfants malades
title_short La carrière cancéreuse des enfants malades
title_full La carrière cancéreuse des enfants malades
title_fullStr La carrière cancéreuse des enfants malades
title_full_unstemmed La carrière cancéreuse des enfants malades
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