1st Edition
Healing Rites of Passage Salutogenesis in Serious Fun Camps
By Peter James Kearney
Copyright 2019
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
2 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Peter James Kearney is Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics and Occasional Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland.
