Contested Spaces
Crossing the United States-Mexico Border for Breast Cancer Care—Or Not
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18978498 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Norah Anita Schwartz (0000-0002-8313-5992, corresponding author), Jong-Deuk Baek, Jong‐Deuk Baek |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 141-150 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/0018-7259-75.2.141 |
| OpenAlex | W2398316170 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 47 |
Place-based structural and social barriers to health care on either side of the United States-Mexico border exist for immigrant women with breast cancer. Evidence suggests that higher breast cancer mortality rates for Latinas are exhibited on the border than in the interior of either country. Interpretive phenomenological approaches have become increasing popular in anthropology over the past quarter century and can effectively be used to foreground health care's entanglements with place. In this article, we employ an intersubjective approach in which the author's personal experience is interwoven to help illustrate and ultimately reduce barriers to breast cancer care, particularly as they are experienced in a borderlands/binational setting. A number of factors contribute to less than optimal care on either side of the border: language barriers, difficulty in accessing insurance coverage, lack of confidence in the medical system, and long waits for care. Modifying current policies to encourage greater com
Border crossing · Breast cancer · Cancer · Economic growth · Economics · Political science · Politics · Global Cancer Incidence and Screening · Internal Medicine · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Public Administration · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
Phenomenological Approaches in Anthropology
Ideas
Interpretive Phenomenology
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
Border Matters
Photovoice
Choose Your Method
Descriptive Versus Interpretive Phenomenology
Commentary
Sexual and reproductive health and rights in changing health systems
Cross-border utilization of health care services by United States residents living near the Mexican border
Where they (live, work and) spray”
Photovoice
Phenomenology of Bodily Integrity in Disfiguring Breast Cancer
Persistent Disparities in the Use of Health Care Along the US–Mexico Border
Bipolar Expeditions
Medical returns
Entangled ethnography
Quality-of-Life Concerns of African American Breast Cancer Survivors Within Rural North Carolina
Breast cancer in Mexico
Applying Anthropology to the Epidemiology of Cancer
The Hierarchy of Resort in Curative Practices
Childhood Asthma on the Northern Mexico Border
Husserl, intersubjectivity and anthropology
Nonprescription Antibiotic Therapy
Medical Travel
Medical Returns as Class Transformation
Beyond health care reform
Access to health services for immigrants in the USA
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |