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No one scans you and says ‘you’re alright now’ : the experience of embodied risk for young women living with a history of breast cancer
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Rees, Sophie (2018) No one scans you and says ‘you’re alright now’ : the experience of embodied risk for young women living with a history of breast cancer. Health, Risk & Society, 20 (7-8). pp. 312-324. doi:10.1080/13698575.2018.1539468
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698575.2018.1539468
Abstract
The concept of ‘embodied’ risk has been used to understand the experience of being at risk of cancer, yet there has been less engagement of the concept in relation to those who have been diagnosed and treated for the disease. In this paper, I draw on young women’s accounts of living with breast cancer with the aim of developing analyses of embodied risk and expanding our understanding of the concept. Twenty women diagnosed with breast cancer while they were aged 18–44 took part in semi-structured interviews in the UK, and I analysed these interview data using social constructionist grounded theory. The findings illustrate how a sense of risk from within the body shaped the young women’s experiences and perceptions of their bodies, and how their body as risky was relational, becoming salient in interactions with others. I also explore new dimensions of embodied risk related to the age and social circumstances of the young women. Although the fear of cancer recurrence is well documented, this paper explores it as an embodied experience.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Clinical Trials Unit Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Young women -- Diseases, Breast -- Cancer -- Psychological aspects, Breast -- Cancer -- Patients -- Interviews, Women -- Identity, Mind and body, Human body | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Health, Risk & Society | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1369-8575 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 24 October 2018 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 20 | ||||||
| Number: | 7-8 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 312-324 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/13698575.2018.1539468 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Publisher Statement: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Health, Risk & Society on 24/10/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13698575.2018.1539468 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
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