Background Finding alternative ways to reconnect with the deceased is a common feature of
bereavement. However, it is currently unclear how bereaved children or young people …

There has been much work highlighting the benefits of autoethnographic research yet little
acknowledgement of the demands researching your own life makes on the emotional and …

This autoethnographic account details the author's ongoing struggle with combat-related
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and how leisure was integral in his journey toward …

The paper proposes that during the terminal stage of parental illness, children are involved
in 'writing'a 'penultimate chapter'. This is a prospective chapter and the quality of its content …

Este artículo aborda la temática de la masculinidad en un contexto de carencia (la pérdida
de la salud y el empleo del varón a cargo de una familia), y es producto de un trabajo de …

People living with a brain injury face a range of negative outcomes and societal barriers that
impact on their ability to participate in society. Whilst the medical and neuroscience literature …

Drawing together the central themes addressed in the anthology, Caroline reflects on her
own experience of parental death as a teenager to compare and contrast with the accounts …

Only in the twentieth century, especially since the 1960s, has the slender body replaced
other concepts of female beauty in the West (Hesse-Biber 1996). Many streams of feminism …

This thesis explores the consequences of healthwork on the biographies of people living
with HIV in Nigeria. Biography, as Corbin and Strauss (1987) observed, consists of …

This project began as a memorial to an athlete who died of cancer, and ended as a journey
through grief. The focus of my research is to explore through an autoethnography of loss …