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Author_Claudia Malacrida
Baby's Death
Baby’s Death
bereaved
Bereaved Parents
bereavement studies
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Complicate Mourning
dead
death
Departmental Ethics Committee
disenfranchised
Early Infant Death
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Experiencing Pregnancy Complications
family coping mechanisms
Feeling Rules
Follow
grief
Grief Resolution
Information Interviews
Labor Coaches
loss
meaning making in infant loss
Mourner's Ability
parents
perinatal
Perinatal Death
Perinatal Grief
Perinatal Loss
pregnancy
Pregnancy Loss
Preterm Infant
psychological trauma
qualitative health research
Regrets Parents
Secondary Losses
Sex Role Conditioning
Shrugging
social support networks
sociology of emotions
Wandered
Wo
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781598742879
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mourning the Dreams is an accessible and moving account of parents’ experiences of grief and recovery after losing an infant during pregnancy, childbirth, or within the first month of life. Drawing from the sociology of emotions, health research and psychology, her own experience, and a range of qualitative methods, Claudia Malacrida finds that bereaved parents not only grieve their child and its unrealized potential, but often find their personal experiences are at odds with social forces and prevailing assumptions about the nature of their loss and how they should react to is. She explores the meanings parents create as they face denial, silence, and other reactions from friends, family, communities, coworkers, the medical community, and even within spousal relationships. She also describes the courage and creativity of parents who create and negotiate meanings that help them grieve, recover, and manage relationships.
Claudia Malacrida is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Lethbridge and author of Cold Comfort: Mothers, Professionals, and Attention Deficit Disorder (2003 University of Toronto Press).
