| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
In this collection of unique patient narratives, adolescents who survived kidney, heart, and liver transplants explore through poetry issues significant to all ages: body changes, independence, identity, and mortality. Background narratives provide context and analyses of their poems that are ultimately healing as they voice hope amid uncertainty. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. Hello, my name is -- Chapter 2. Illness and the ways it names us -- Chapter 3. Miracle-like -- Chapter 4. Teens just want to have fun -- Chapter 5. The drive for independence -- Chapter 6. On the edge -- Chapter 7. Marcus -- Chapter 8. Echoes -- Chapter 9. Biopsies: not benign procedures -- Chapter 10. The truth about metaphors -- Chapter 11. Yeah right, poetry -- Chapter 12. Celebration -- Chapter 13. For those who help us survive -- Chapter 14. Waiting room -- Chapter 15. Utterly alone -- Chapter 16. Lost and found -- Chapter 17. Mirror, mirror on the wall -- Chapter 18. Reflection -- Chapter 19. Boys and their bodies -- Chapter 20. Our scars, our selves -- Chapter 21. Mark this beautiful -- Chapter 22. The transplant dream -- Chapter 23. Nightmares -- Chapter 24. Amber -- Chapter 25. Dana's legacy -- Chapter 26. Groundbreaking -- Epilogue -- Afterword: Pamela Grant -- References. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. in children.
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Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. in children. |
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Transplant surgery. |
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Medical, Surgery, Transplant. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sample, Susan J. Voices of Teenage Transplant Survivors. First edition. Bingley : Emerald, 2021 1800435193 9781800435193 (OCoLC)1233168015 |
| ISBN |
9781800435186 (electronic book) |
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1800435185 (electronic book) |
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9781800435209 (electronic book) |
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1800435207 (electronic book) |
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1800435193 |
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9781800435193 |
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