The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Ann Burack-Weiss
eISBN: 9780231510776
2006 (216 pages )
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(pages 1-209)
Table of Contents
(pages 7-8)
Acknowledgments
(pages 9-10)
Crystallized Love
(pages 11-20)
Part I. Care Situations
(pages 21-22)
1. Introduction: “The Flavor of the Name”
(pages 23-31)
2. Cancer: “Cancer’s Gift”
(pages 32-38)
3. Dementia: “Everything Crumbles”
(pages 39-44)
4. HIV/AIDS: “Burden of a Secret”
(pages 45-50)
5. Mental Illness/Chemical Dependence: “Companion Demons”
(pages 51-58)
Part 2. Care Relationships
(pages 59-60)
6. Introduction: “Spun in Love’s Loom”
(pages 61-67)
7. Child Care: “An Unimagined Life”
(pages 68-77)
8. Sibling Care: “She Was My Parents’ Child, and So Was I”
(pages 78-83)
9. Couple Care: “This Terrible Traffic Regulation”
(pages 84-91)
10. Parent Care: “The Consummate Act”
(pages 92-102)
Part 3. The Memoirs
(pages 103-104)
11. Introduction: “Jointly Human”
(pages 105-107)
12. Memoirs in Brief: “Our Inward Journey”
(pages 108-158)
13. Epilogue
(pages 159-178)
Appendix 1: The Memoirs, by Care Relationship and Care Situation
(pages 179-188)
Notes
(pages 189-194)
Sources Cited
(pages 195-198)
Index
(pages 199-209)
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The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Ann Burack-Weiss explores a rich variety of published memoirs by authors who cared for ill or disabled family members. Contrary to the common belief that caregiving is nothing more than a stressful situation to be endured, memoirs describe a life transforming experience-self-discovery, a reordering of one's priorities, and a changed view of the world. The Caregiver's Tale offers insight and comfort to individuals caring for a loved one and is a valuable resource for all health care professionals.
Identifying common themes, Burack-Weiss describes how the illness career and social meaning of cancer, dementia, HIV/AIDS, mental illness, and chemical dependence affect the caregiving experience. She applies the same method to an examination of family roles: parents caring for ailing children, couples and siblings caring for one another, and adult children caring for aging parents.
Jamaica Kincaid, Sue Miller, Paul Monette, Kenzaburo Oe, and Philip Roth are among the many authors who share their caregiving stories. Burack-Weiss provides an annotated bibliography of the more than one hundred memoirs and an accompanying chart to help readers locate those of greatest interest to them.
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The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life
Author(s):
Burack-Weiss, Ann
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