Religion, collusion, and “fighting”: pediatric cancer end-of-life discourses in Catalonia, Spain

• Clemente, Ignasi ^[1]
  1. [1] Hunter College

     Hunter College

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Discourses on the edges of life / coord. por Vicent Salvador i Liern, Adéla Kotatkova, Ignasi Clemente, 2020, ISBN 978-90-272-0537-7, págs. 85-95
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter is based on an ethnographic study of communicative practices surrounding the death of a five-year-old pediatric cancer patient in a hospital in Catalonia (Spain). In the present case study, I highlight the significant co-occurring variation in how cancer and death are discussed or avoided within the same sociocultural. Specifically, I focus on three ways of talking about cancer and death: (1) using religious imagery, (2) co-creating the optimistic and hopeful collusion that everything is going well, and (3) using “let’s keep fighting” language.