Publications

Publication details [#49091]

Buchbinder, Mara H. 2008. 'You're still sick!' Framing, footing, and participation in children's medical play. Discourse Studies 10 (2) : 139–159.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

children's play | footing | frame | health

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Drawing on activity theory and cultural psychology, this paper explores children's play in order to discover how children, coping with a parent's cancer, negotiate, model, and reproduce biomedical practices and illness comprehension.