Engendering the dread disease
Women, men, and cancer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11038722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie J Reagan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1779-1787 |
| Publication date | 1997-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.87.11.1779 |
| PMID | 9366635 |
| OpenAlex | W2033937448 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
This paper, based on an analysis of cancer articles published in popular periodical literature since the early part of the century, argues that gender has played a key role in medical and popular understandings of cancer. Cancer education, the author finds, has taught women and men different things. Public health materials created with the intention of improving health through education actually send a multiplicity of messages, not all of them helpful. This essay suggests that public health messages targeted by sex are problematic, although perhaps necessary. The paper also contributes to scholarship concerned with the question of how people develop their ideas about risk of disease
Disease · Health education · Pathology · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity and Health Practices · School Health and Nursing Education · Gerontology
Cztery Pokolenia Rzeczniczek Walki Z Rakiem Piersi W Służbie Medialnej Edukacji Zdrowotnej
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"Cancer as the General Population Knows It"
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Body, Capital and Screens
Key Determinants of the Health and Well-Being of Men and Boys
The British Fight against Cancer
A Picture of Health? New Zealand-made Health Education Films 1952-1962
Models of understanding
Rashes, Rights, and Wrongs in the Hospital and in the Courtroom
Men’s Lived Experiences with Breast Cancer
Defining and Exploring Modesty in Jewish American Women
Sexuality, Breast Cancer Survivorship, and Script Theory
Sexual Modesty in Sexual Expression and Experience
Gender and Cancer in Britain, 1860–1910
Great expectations
Le genre du cancer
Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being
Not from home
Cancer Patients and their Spouses
Cancer, women, and public health
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,78 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2022 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |