The Body in the Mirror

Breast Cancer, Liminality and Borderlands

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4564459
AutoresNorah 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, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume40
Fascículo1
Páginas64-78
Data de publicação2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2020.1775220
PMID32698629
OpenAlexW3044619878
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas46

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