Doing Technological Time in a Pediatric Hemodialysis Unit: A Ethnography of Children

Since the 1960s, hemodialysis has been a common intervention for children with end-stage renal disease. For weeks, months or years, children’s activities are disrupted because they must return to the hospital to be dialyzed about three times a week, for three or four hours. Their childhoods are char...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zitzelsberger, Hilde
Other Authors: Peter, Elizabeth Helen
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/34981