Renegotiating identity: cancer narratives

Renegotiating identity: cancer narratives

Frames the work of living with cancer as one which is identity-altering. Interviews with a heterogeneous group of cancer patients of varying sites and stages were used to conceptualise the identity work as involving disrupted feelings of fit, renegotiating identity, and biographical work. (Original...

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Veröffentlicht in:Sociology of health & illness 1995-06, Vol.17 (3), p.283-306
Hauptverfasser: MATHIESON, C. M, STAM, H. J
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Alberta
Canada
Cancer
Coping
Identity
Narratives
Patients
Renegotiation
Social Identity
Sociology
Sociology of health and medicine
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Zusammenfassung:Frames the work of living with cancer as one which is identity-altering. Interviews with a heterogeneous group of cancer patients of varying sites and stages were used to conceptualise the identity work as involving disrupted feelings of fit, renegotiating identity, and biographical work. (Original abstract-amended)
ISSN:0141-9889
DOI:10.1111/1467-9566.ep10933316