title: Survivorship as craft and conviction: reflections on research in progress.
abstract: The choice of some illness survivors to engage in service to other ill people, and thus to focus their lives on illness longer than their own treatment requires, is not self-evident. The authors describes alternative cultural narratives of survivorship, proposes an understanding of survivorship as a form of craft, and considers the societal mortality that is reflected in survivor's accounts of their service work.
authors.affiliation: University of Calgary.
authors.forename: Arthur W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Frank
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000533:Altruism; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D028681:Moral Obligations; D033262:Narration; D011788:Quality of Life; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012944:Social Support; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*