Voices of Teenage Transplant Survivors : Miracle-Like /

In this collection of unique patient narratives, adolescents who survived kidney, heart, and liver transplants explore through poetry issues significant to all ages: body changes, independence, identity, and mortality. Background narratives provide context and analyses of their poems that are ultima...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sample, Susan J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bingley : Emerald, 2021.
Édition:First edition.
Sujets:
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. in children.
Greffe (Chirurgie) chez l'enfant.
Transplant surgery.
Medical, Surgery, Transplant.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. in children
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Chapter 1. Hello, my name is
  • Chapter 2. Illness and the ways it names us
  • Chapter 3. Miracle-like
  • Chapter 4. Teens just want to have fun
  • Chapter 5. The drive for independence
  • Chapter 6. On the edge
  • Chapter 7. Marcus
  • Chapter 8. Echoes
  • Chapter 9. Biopsies: not benign procedures
  • Chapter 10. The truth about metaphors
  • Chapter 11. Yeah right, poetry
  • Chapter 12. Celebration
  • Chapter 13. For those who help us survive
  • Chapter 14. Waiting room
  • Chapter 15. Utterly alone
  • Chapter 16. Lost and found
  • Chapter 17. Mirror, mirror on the wall
  • Chapter 18. Reflection
  • Chapter 19. Boys and their bodies
  • Chapter 20. Our scars, our selves
  • Chapter 21. Mark this beautiful
  • Chapter 22. The transplant dream
  • Chapter 23. Nightmares
  • Chapter 24. Amber
  • Chapter 25. Dana's legacy
  • Chapter 26. Groundbreaking
  • Epilogue
  • Afterword: Pamela Grant
  • References.

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