東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

From pre-symptomatic to post-recover...

Davis, Elizabeth Marie.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

From pre-symptomatic to post-recovery and back again: A narrative analysis of medical discourse on breast cancer.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	From pre-symptomatic to post-recovery and back again: A narrative analysis of medical discourse on breast cancer./
Author:	Davis, Elizabeth Marie.
Description:	272 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-05, Section: A, page: 1553.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-05A.
Subject:	Women's Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9833963
ISBN:	9780591873139

From pre-symptomatic to post-recovery and back again: A narrative analysis of medical discourse on breast cancer.
Davis, Elizabeth Marie.

From pre-symptomatic to post-recovery and back again: A narrative analysis of medical discourse on breast cancer. - 272 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-05, Section: A, page: 1553.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 1998.

This study explores the role of medical discourse in constructing a social identity for women with breast cancer. Data used in this study are 14 individual documents produced by the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society, directed toward cancer patients, on the topics of breast cancer and treatment options. Narrative analysis reveals that medical discourse presents all women as at risk for breast cancer and provides an idealized patient identity which serves a prescriptive function for women with breast cancer. Two distinct narratives are present in the medical discourse. The primary narrative focuses on the early cancer experience where the patient is treatable and cancer is cured or controlled. This narrative follows a treatment trajectory from pre-symptomatic through symptomatic to diagnosis, treatment, recovery and post-recovery, offering a predictable set of events and patient behaviors. At the point of post-recovery, the patient moves back to a pre-symptomatic state marked by heightened awareness and increased surveillance. The secondary narrative focuses on the advanced cancer experience where the patient is terminal. Events are structured around the patient's ability to function on a daily basis coupled with limitations resulting from physical deterioration. The narrative ends with an emphasis on the patient extracting appreciation and meaning from daily activities and experiences with family and friends.

ISBN: 9780591873139Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017481
Women's Studies.

From pre-symptomatic to post-recovery and back again: A narrative analysis of medical discourse on breast cancer.
LDR:03026nam 2200313 4500 001 1398371
005 20110908143009.5
008 130515s1998 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9780591873139
035 $a (UMI)AAI9833963
035 $a AAI9833963
040 $a UMI $c UMI
100 1 $a Davis, Elizabeth Marie. $3 1677250
245 1 0 $a From pre-symptomatic to post-recovery and back again: A narrative analysis of medical discourse on breast cancer.
300 $a 272 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-05, Section: A, page: 1553.
500 $a Adviser: James Hikins.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 1998.
520 $a This study explores the role of medical discourse in constructing a social identity for women with breast cancer. Data used in this study are 14 individual documents produced by the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society, directed toward cancer patients, on the topics of breast cancer and treatment options. Narrative analysis reveals that medical discourse presents all women as at risk for breast cancer and provides an idealized patient identity which serves a prescriptive function for women with breast cancer. Two distinct narratives are present in the medical discourse. The primary narrative focuses on the early cancer experience where the patient is treatable and cancer is cured or controlled. This narrative follows a treatment trajectory from pre-symptomatic through symptomatic to diagnosis, treatment, recovery and post-recovery, offering a predictable set of events and patient behaviors. At the point of post-recovery, the patient moves back to a pre-symptomatic state marked by heightened awareness and increased surveillance. The secondary narrative focuses on the advanced cancer experience where the patient is terminal. Events are structured around the patient's ability to function on a daily basis coupled with limitations resulting from physical deterioration. The narrative ends with an emphasis on the patient extracting appreciation and meaning from daily activities and experiences with family and friends.
520 $a This project joins rhetoric and health communication through the application of narrative analysis to medical discourse on breast cancer. Narrative analysis identifies story elements within a narrative, as well as underlying themes and values embedded in a given discourse, thus providing insights into the experiences of breast cancer and patient identity as constructed in medical discourse. Specific social roles and behaviors are enacted in these two narratives, lending weight to the theory that identity is, at least partially, constructed and communicated through medical discourses.
590 $a School code: 0168.
650 4 $a Women's Studies. $3 1017481
650 4 $a Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery. $3 1017756
650 4 $a Language, Rhetoric and Composition. $3 1019205
650 4 $a Health Sciences, Oncology. $3 1018566
690 $a 0453
690 $a 0564
690 $a 0681
690 $a 0992
710 2 $a The Ohio State University. $3 718944
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 59-05A.
790 1 0 $a Hikins, James, $e advisor
790 $a 0168
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 1998
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9833963