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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2654851 |
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| Authors | Helle Ploug Hansen (0000-0002-5075-8739, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Issue | 52 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tidsskriftet Antropologi (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0906-3021 • E-ISSN: 2596-5425 |
| Publisher | Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7146/ta.v0i52.27338 |
| OpenAlex | W948256802 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Helle Ploug Hansen: 'My Memory is Like a Sieve': On Women, Cancer and Chemo- therapy Empirical data from my research project about women, cancer and rehabilitation are used in this article to explore loss of memory in relation to a severe disease. First I describe how women experience loss of memory in the case of cancer, and how they interpret this as a side-effect of the chemotherapy treatment. Hereby they reproduce a part of the dominant health discourse, where loss of memory is understood as cognitive impairment. Second, I explore how the women through their stories of illness experiences show that they remember quite well and with a lot of details - they just remember something other than they thought they should remember. Third, I argue that people experiencing a severe disease concentrate a great deal of their attention on the body, forgetting acts and experiences outside their own living body. As Scarry has said: 'What is remembered in the body is remembered well
Cognition · Cognitive impairment · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Forgetting · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Psychology · Social and Educational Sciences
| Highly cited | No |
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