Dinah A. Tetteh

Communication Studies and Feminist Perspectives on Ovarian Cancer

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Produktbeschreibung

Communication Studies and Feminist Perspectives on Ovarian Cancer examines the embodied experience of ovarian cancer by critically analyzing impacts of normative social and medical discourses-including discourses of risk, choice, early detection, lack of reliable screening tests for ovarian cancer, feminine beauty, and self-advocacy-on women's communicative responses to the disease and treatments. It argues that these discourses help discredit some ovarian cancer experiences, encourage a one-dimensional perspective on the disease, and divert attention from larger issues such as society's disregard for women's complaints about disease symptoms. Blanket promotion of these discourses essentializes women's experiences of the disease, pointing out how normative beliefs about women's health and illness are often flipped and repackaged as standard language to discuss women's experiences. Using interview data and scholarly work from communication studies, feminist studies, critical/cultural studies, anthropology, critical psychology, and other disciplines, this book suggests we give equal importance to personal experiences and medical/scientific research to advance knowledge about ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is a disease specific to women; as such, women's experiences cannot be minimized in attempts to understand the disease.

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Produktdetails

• Lexington Studies in Health Communication
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781498548113
• ISBN-10: 1498548113
• Artikelnr.: 51145969

Autorenporträt

By Dinah A. Tetteh

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1. Introduction CHAPTER 2. (Not)making Sense: Receiving an
Uncertain Diagnosis CHAPTER 3. Setting Boundaries and Distancing Selves:
Owning The Lived Experience of Ovarian Cancer CHAPTER 4. Becoming an
Ovarian Cancer Survivor: Managing Uncertainty and Survivor's Guilt CHAPTER
5. "I Feel Different": Ovarian Cancer and Sexual Self-Concept CHAPTER 6.
Advocacy and Self-Advocacy in the Ovarian Cancer Context (With Gini
Steinke) CHAPTER 7. Afterward: Marrying the Personal and Medical to Improve
Ovarian Cancer Bibliography Index About the Author