Deploying Normality
Cancer Survivor Identity and Authenticity in Ritual-like Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4564493 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Plage (0000-0001-7217-3806, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Indooroopilly, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 473-489 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2021.1909582 |
| PMID | 33847551 |
| OpenAlex | W3156197929 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 32 |
In scholarship on cancer survivorship, "normality" is discussed as a strategy to restore and maintain continuity of identity for the person with cancer. I interrogate the strategic deployment of "normality" in what I define as ritual-like practices by drawing on 20 narrative interviews and 455 photographs produced by study participants. The findings explore normality as outcome (being normal), practice (doing normality), and ethical standard (aspiring to normality). They indicate how sociocultural scripts such as the cancer survivor identity and authentic selfhood inflect what it means to be a "normal" person with cancer with repercussions for recognition in lived experience
Aesthetics · Art · Cancer · Cancer survivor · Cancer survivorship · Epistemology · Identity (music · Narrative · Normality · Normative · Population · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Survivorship curve · Anthropology · Cancer survivorship and care · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Medicine · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |