The sociology of cancer
A Decade of Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249354 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Kerr (0000-0002-9958-301X, School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Leeds UK, corresponding author), Emily Ro (0000-0002-5165-7649, The Usher Institute Edinburgh Medical School University of Edinburgh UK), Gwen Jacques (School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Leeds UK), Sarah Cunningham-Burley (0000-0002-0009-7653), Sarah Cunningham‐burley (The Usher Institute Edinburgh Medical School University of Edinburgh UK) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 552-576 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.12662 |
| PMID | 29446117 |
| OpenAlex | W2787986226 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 246 |
Biomedicine is often presented as the driving force behind improvements in cancer care, with genomics the latest innovation poised to change the meaning, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and lived experience of cancer. Reviewing sociological analyses of a diversity of patient and practitioner experiences and accounts of cancer during the last decade (2007-17), we explore the experiences of, approaches to and understandings of cancer in this period. We identify three key areas of focus: (i) cancer patient experiences and identities; (ii) cancer risk and responsibilities and (iii) bioclinical collectives. We explore these sociological studies of societal and biomedical developments and how sociologists have sought to influence developments in cancer identities, care and research. We end by suggesting that we extend our understanding of innovations in the fields of cancer research to take better account of these wider social and cultural innovations, together with patients, activists' and sociologists' contributions therein
Engineering ethics · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Engineering · Ethics in Clinical Research · Race, Genetics, and Society
The Biopolitics of “Previving”
The familial canopy as thought space for meaning making, emotional calibration and planful action around inherited cancer risk
Les parcours de soins des enfants en rechute de cancer. Un objet multi-situé au croisement de la sociologie et de la médecine
Precarious living in the age of precision medicine
Temporal Misalignment and Unequal Agency
Chronicity and the patient’s decision-making work. The case of an advanced cancer patient
Entre catégorie médicale et expérience située
Le paysage associatif du cancer
Epistemic dwelling
Beyond nosology? Molecular tumor boards, singularization, and the conflation of diagnosis and therapy
Extending experimentation
It’s personalized, but it’s still bucket based”
Chronicity in/and cancer
Integration of Narratives Into Mixed Methods Research
Book Forum
Re-grounding the concept of liminality by foregrounding spatial aspects in experiences of cancer care
Managing liminality
Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia
Coexisting cancer regimes
It's all about time
We Need to Go Back Home (to) the Philippines Healthy
A Discourse of Deviance
Experiencing the Sars-CoV-2 Pandemic Whilst Living With Cancer
Making sense of bodily sensations
Beyond fatalism
Financial struggles and coping with the aftermath of breast cancer care
Comensalidade, câncer e sobrevivência
The moral cosmology of cancer
Para além das classificações biomédicas
Utiliser la recherche pour soigner le cancer
The convivial and the pastoral in patient-doctor relationships
Crafting Science
The Politics of Personalised Medicine
Future disorientation following gynaecological cancer
The phenomenology of trust
General Practitioners, specialists and surveillance guidelines
Preparing for and communicating uncertainty in cancer genetic counselling sessions in Norway
Uncertain futures
Constructing a safe research environment
‘Take ownership of your condition’
Writing the risk of cancer
Evidence-based familial risk explanations in cancer genetic counselling
Considering a future which may not exist
Risk, choice and the ‘girl vaccine’
Individualised risk estimation and the nature of prevention
PSA testing
Better safe than sorry
'Life would be pretty dull without risk'
The case of the lady who risked exploding
‘I am not someone who gets skin cancer’
‘Tales of mind over cancer’
Socioeconomic Disparities in Fatalistic Beliefs About Cancer Prevention and the Internet
Mindsets, Informed Consent, and Research
Foucault, Health and Medicine
Cakes for cure
A Space for Suffering? Communicating Breast Cancer in an Online Self-Help Context
Access to Catch-Up HPV Vaccination among Latina University Students
“I like to be an informed person but…” negotiating responsibility for treatment decisions in cancer care
Connective tissue
BRCA patients in Cuba, Greece and Germany
On doing ‘being ordinary’
Bridging differential understanding of environmental risk of breast cancer
Stakeholders’ positions in the breast screening debate, and media coverage of the debate
Breast Cancer Screening Program
Mothers and Daughters
The Role of Acculturation and Collectivism in Cancer Screening for Vietnamese American Women
Becoming Patient
Health Beliefs and Practices Related to Cancer Screening Among Arab Muslim Women in an Urban Community
Jordanian and Palestinian Immigrant Women's Knowledge, Affect, Cultural Attitudes, Health Habits, and Participation in Breast Cancer Screening
Views of Mammography Screening Among U.S. Black and Hispanic Immigrant Women and Their Providers
Beliefs Related to Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Screening Among Lebanese Armenian Women
Factors Affecting Uptake of Cervical Cancer Early Detection Measures Among Women in Thika, Kenya
Cancer Clinical Trials
Understanding Prostate Cancer Screenings among African American Men
Freedom and pressure in self-disclosure
Space, place and temporality in stem cell and cancer tissue banking
The aesthetic rationality of the popular expressive arts
African and Black Caribbean origin cancer survivors
Understanding and improving communication and decision-making in palliative care for Turkish and Moroccan immigrants
Changing the conversation about prostate cancer among African Americans
Breast and cervical cancer screening
Ethnicity and cultural models of recovery from breast cancer
HPV knowledge, attitudes, and cultural beliefs among Hispanic men and women living on the Texas–Mexico border
Treatment delay for Māori women with breast cancer in New Zealand
Older Chinese people's views on food
Postmillennial breast cancer photo-narratives
Breast cancer, breast surgery, and the makeover metaphor
Tekhnē of reconstruction
Prosthetic fantasies
Normalizing’ female cancer patients
The Absent Breast
When Subjects Bite Back
Learning to live with it”
Goals Set in the Land of the Living/Dying
Cancer clinical trials in the era of genomic signatures
What’s Behind a Guideline
Precautionary tales
The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives
Cancergazing? CA125 and post-treatment surveillance in advanced ovarian cancer
Health, healing and recovery
Jade and the journalists
Symptomization and triggering processes
Biomedicalization
Discourses of normality and difference
The Word as Scalpel
Guarding Our Borders with Gardasil
An Exploratory Study of Social Capital and Cancer Survivorship
An Examination of Community Members', Researchers' and Health Professionals' Perceptions of Barriers to Minority Participation in Medical Research
Calibrating Translational Cancer Research
Racial inequalities in access to women's health care in southern Brazil
Medical therapeutic itineraries of women with breast cancer diagnosis affiliated to the People's Health Insurance in San Luis Potosí, central Mexico
Localizing the Global
From sick role to narrative subject
Disruption foreclosed
Containment' as an analytical framework for understanding patient delay
Structural barriers to screening for and treatment of cervical cancer in Peru
The role of institutional entrepreneurs in reforming healthcare
Cancer diagnosis as discursive capture
Getting evidence into policy
Stakeholder perceptions of thoracic rapid tissue donation
Women and prostate cancer support groups
Disrupted lives and threats to identity
On the Receiving End
Understanding the experiences and quality of life issues of Bahraini women with breast cancer
Patient perspectives on information and choice in cancer screening
Cervical cancer
I knew before I was told
Dying cancer patients talk about euthanasia
Testing devices or experimental systems? Cancer clinical trials take the genomic turn
I deal with the small things
Discussing race-related limitations of genomic testing for colon cancer risk
| Unique citing works | 31 |
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| Citations per year | 3,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |