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The bad patient : estranged subjects of the cancer culture
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Steinberg, Deborah Lynn (2015) The bad patient : estranged subjects of the cancer culture. Body & Society, 21 (3). pp. 115-143. doi:10.1177/1357034X15586240 ISSN 1357-034X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1357034X15586240
Abstract
Cancer has long been a cultural touchstone: a metaphor of devastation and a spectre of social as well as bodily anomie and loss. Yet recent years have witnessed significant transformations in perceptions of cancer, particularly in perceptions of the cancer patient. This paper is concerned with the ‘struggles of subjectivity’ emergent in this transvalued cancer culture. Explored from the standpoint of the ‘bad patient’, and drawing on media and cultural methodologies, the paper will consider the convergence of medicine, morality and popular iconography as they are embedded in the imageries, imaginaries and representational economies of the cancer culture industry. Of particular concern in this context are the (re)composures of the patient, as liminal figure, caught between clinical imperative and cultural fantasy.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Body & Society | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1357-034X | ||||||
| Official Date: | September 2015 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 21 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 115-143 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1357034X15586240 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Description: | This article is from the Body & Society Special Issue 'Estranged |
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| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||||
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