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SICK ROLE MEMOIR
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Armstrong, Elizabeth. 2010. “SICK ROLE MEMOIR”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/sick-role-memoir.

Abstract

Being sick is a universal human experience. Think about a time when you or a family member or close friend was sick. Write a personal memoir along the lines of Alice Trillin’s "Of dragons and garden peas: a cancer patient talks to doctors." What was it like to be ill, or to deal with the illness of someone close to you? What was it like to be a...

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Subject Area(s):
Medical Sociology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 400

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