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Publication details [#17942]

Beach, Wayne A. 1996. Conversations about IIlness: Family Preoccupations with Bulimia. (Everyday communication: Case studies of behavior in context). Erlbaum. xviii + 148 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
ISBN
0-8058-1756-5

Annotation

This book presents an interactional study of a family's experience with a particular illness of one of its members, bulimia, by locating the notion of illness in the interactional details of a conversation between a grandmother and granddaughter.

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