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Recommended Reading List
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Culture As an Influence on Breast Cancer Screening and Early Detection.
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Facione, N. C.
Katapodi, M.
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Semin Oncol Nurs. 16(3):238-47.
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Special Pop. Women
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2000
Aug
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OBJECTIVES: To explore how culture may play a part in breast cancer screening, early detection, and efforts to decrease breast mortality. DATA SOURCES: Journal articles published in the past 20 years on cultural aspects of cancer prevention and control. CONCLUSIONS: Research seems directed more at discovering cultural differences than at identifying similarities on how culture influences breast cancer screening and early detection. The influences of poverty and lack of educational opportunities account for much of what is termed cultural difference. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Improving practice through an informed understanding of culture calls for considerable self-education and a fundamental refinement of care delivery.
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Social Constructions of Breast Cancer.
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Thorne, S. E.
Murray, C.
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Health Care Women Int. 21(3):141-59.
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Special Pop. Women
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2000 Apr-May
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In contrast to other life-threatening diseases, in which mortality is understood as the fundamental threat, much popular and professional discourse about breast cancer focuses on such issues as the identity, body image, and self-worth of the afflicted woman. Within the Western biomedical tradition, the meaning ascribed to breast cancer has been strongly influenced by competing social interpretations. In this paper, we contend that such social constructions shape the manner in which women experience breast cancer, including their decision making in response to treatment options as well as their strategies for coping with and making sense of breast cancer illness. We argue that an appreciation of the historical and cultural contexts in which breast cancer imagery has been constructed helps to explain the confusing array of ideologies that confront contemporary women diagnosed with breast cancer.
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