‘Oral Cancer is a Punishment for my Sins’: Oral Histories of Oral Cancer, Fatalism and Islamic Religious Beliefs in Pakistan

This paper explores how Islamic religious beliefs; spiritual practices and fatalism may act as barriers to a diagnosis of oral cancer in Rawalpindi/Islamabad Pakistan. The qualitative methodology is oral history and interviews took place with fifteen women diagnosed with oral cancer and receiving tr...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of religion and health 2022-12, Vol.61 (6), p.4337-4351
Hauptverfasser: Khokhar, Mariam A., Gibson, Barry, Winslow, Michelle, Owens, Janine
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