The Body in the Mirror

Breast Cancer, Liminality and Borderlands

Bibliographic Data

ID4564459
AuthorsNorah Anita Schwartz (0000-0002-8313-5992, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte), Christine Alysse Von Glascoe (0000-0002-4305-4530, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume40
Issue1
Pages64-78
Publication date2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2020.1775220
PMID32698629
OpenAlexW3044619878
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited46

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide, and has a high mortality rate in northern Mexico. Its high rates present one of the principal health challenges of the California-Baja California border region. We employed "entangled" ethnography and interpretative phenomenological methods to explore breast cancer experiences among a group of Mexican immigrant women living on the US side of this border. We explore their trajectory from biographical disruption to biographical renewal. The entangled ethnographic approach includes reflections of the first author's experience as a genetic breast cancer survivor

Breast cancer · Cancer · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Immigration · Liminality · Sociology · Anthropology · BRCA gene mutations in cancer · Demography · Gender Studies · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening · History · Medicine · Race, Genetics, and Society