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Gaspar, Elisangela Teixeira Bálico. "Narrativas do cancro: Uma análise autobiográfica." Master's thesis, ISPA - Instituto Universitário, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/2556.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Psicologia Clínica, apresentada ao ISPA - Instituto Universitário<br>O diagnóstico do cancro e todo o processo da doença são vividos, não só pelo doente como também pela sua família, como um momento de grande sofrimento, ansiedade, tristeza e angústia. Assim como, transformação de aspetos positivo e negativo, constatadas nas narrativas de revisão de literatura, e nas vivências subjetivas dos indivíduos com a experiência do cancro que aceitaram colaborar neste estudo. Neste sentido, o presente estudo objetivou a compreensão das narrativas pessoais, incluindo o mo

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Anthias, Louise. "Constructing personal and couple narratives in late stage cancer : a narrative analysis." Thesis, University of East London, 2015. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/5179/.

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An increasing number of people with terminal cancer are being cared for at home, often by their partner. This study explores the identity, experiences and relationships of people caring for their partner at the end of life and how they construct their experience through personal and couple narratives. It draws upon dialogical approaches to narrative analysis to focus on caring partners and the care relationship. Six participants were recruited for the study. Two methods of data collection are used: narrative interviews and journals. Following individual case analysis, two methods of cross-narr

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Kitta, Andrea. "Narratives of Cancer Survivors in Religious Life." TopSCHOLAR®, 2003. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/606.

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Narratives of Cancer Survivors in Religions Life is a careful consideration of the narratives of cancer survivors, specifically those in Catholic religious life. Through the use of interviews and secondary sources, the author addresses such issues as relationship with God, stigmatization, community life, Parson's Sick Role, and labeling theories. This thesis also considers the perceived audience during the performance of narratives, specifically, if cancer survivors in religious life perceive God to be a part of their audience and looks at the structure of narratives concerning cancer survivor

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Teucher, Ulrich C. "Writing the unspeakable : metaphor in cancer narratives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ56631.pdf.

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Whitman, Birgit. "Breast cancer : patient narratives and treatment methods." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2004. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2969/.

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This thesis concentrates on the treatment of women with breast cancer in the 19th and 20th century. It analyses written published patient narratives linking them with clinical developments. Medical history holds a rich source of information providing the view of the clinician. This includes case reports and case series from one surgeon or one hospital for the earlier period of the study and has progressed to the double blind randomised controlled trial that dominates comparative research today. There is an imbalance in the material available for the analysis of patients’ perceptions of their t

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Montgomery, Anne. "Changing narratives of prostate cancer 1990-2010." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2015. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8910.

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Prostate cancer (PCa) is a unique and controversial disease. This is at least due to the high prevalence of latent disease, increasing amounts of which is being diagnosed, most of which is indolent and not lead to death, and for which treatment carries significant risks. An increasing concern in medical sociology is how various social structures and actors contribute to the diagnosis and experience of conditions. For PCa, these include print media as an information source for men with prostate cancer (MWPCa), and PCa organisations (PCaOrgs) which have recently emerged in the UK. Yet, there is

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Gregory, David Michael. "Narratives of suffering in the cancer experience." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186965.

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Suffering is a fundamental experience of the human condition. Whereas the arts and humanities have struggled to make sense of this condition, no concerted effort has taken place in nursing. Suffering is painfully absent within the cancer nursing research literature, a place where suffering should be conspicuous. The purpose of this study was to explore suffering inherent in the cancer experience. The concurrent use of Travelbee's Human-To-Human Relationship Model and narrative theory provided the conceptual underpinning for this prospective ethnography. Narratives of suffering were explored am

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Pereira, Lila. "Can Making Video Narratives Benefit Adolescents with Cancer." Thesis, Palo Alto University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10288231.

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<p> Teens with cancer can face a myriad of psychological symptoms. These symptoms include those related to depression, medical trauma, and anxiety, in addition to any of the typical trials of adolescence. Although healthy teens navigate normal developmental challenges by turning to their peers, family, and social institutions (such as places of worship, etc.), teens with cancer are often isolated from their support networks due to lengthy hospital stays and recovery. The unique challenges faced by adolescents with cancer set them apart from their healthy peers, families, and social institution

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Marshall, Candace. "Unsolicited narratives from cancer survivors : a longitudinal, qualitative analysis." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45328.

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Being diagnosed with the ‘C’ word, also known as cancer, provokes a wide variety of psychological reactions for those newly diagnosed with the disease. The cannon of literature on how individuals cope and adjust to a cancer is diverse and suggests that how one copes and adjusts is influenced by such variables as age, gender, social support, cancer severity and cancer type. This qualitative study is a secondary analysis of unsolicited narratives written in the margins of survey questionnaires in a longitudinal study of how cancer patients emotionally adjust to a cancer diagnosis. The purpose of

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Porroche-Escudero, Ana. "Listening to women : political narratives of breast cancer in Spain." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/36135/.

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The thesis examines the complex relationship between individual experiences of breast cancer and the wider social, political and discursive context in which they are located. It focuses on how Spanish women living with breast cancer define their own health priorities by exploring their experiences and their dissatisfactions, which appear to have been excluded from public and biomedical discourses. The data was collected in a provincial city in Western Spain and focused on the lived experiences of 32 women living and surviving breast cancer. Interviews were mainly conducted in the headquarters

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King, Katharine E. "Writing the breast cancer journey : illness narratives from an Internet forum /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ54928.pdf.

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McNamara, Karen. "Blogging breast cancer language and subjectivity in women's online illness narratives /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2007. http://dspace.wrlc.org/handle/1961/4111.

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Chapman, Rosemary. ""Am I doing it right?" : a discursive analysis of cancer narratives." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2001. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/6791.

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This thesis explores the difficulties of talking about cancer. Conversational interviews with 17 people diagnosed with cancer are analysed from the perspective of discursive psychology which treats accounts and the description of events as discourse practices and categories. Cancer is considered a mysterious and frightening disease associated with myths and taboos. It is a sensitive topic and talking about it can be a delicate and difficult thing to do for all concerned. If a person with cancer (PWC) is not seen or heard to be 'being positive' or 'adopting a fighting spirit, they could be left

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Soltermann, Tanya C. "Emergence of a Cancer Identity in Emerging Adulthood: Weblogs as Illness Narratives." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30653.

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The focus of this research is on the specific relational and particular circumstances that result in an emerging cancer identity expressed through the daily lived- experiences of emerging adults via personal weblogs. Identity, a complex term in its own right, is discussed here under the rubric of social identity as processual, therefore it is expected that an emerging cancer identity will develop as the participants begin to narrativize their daily experiences with cancer on their weblogs. By critically engaging with notions of emerging adulthood theories with theories on the sociology of deat

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Nielsen, Emilia Victoria Llewellyn. "Disruptive breast cancer narratives: shaping cultural politics, informing feminist bioethics and performing repair." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44733.

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This project explores the narration of experiential knowledge about breast cancer arguing that personal narratives, in the form of “disruptive breast cancer narratives,” have the potential to shift public perceptions, breast cancer culture and biomedical understandings of the disease. In Chapter 2, I explore the potential of narrative enquiry in qualitative health research and establish my interdisciplinary framework which turns to patient-centred knowledge creation, affective illness histories and archiving feelings as well as cultural studies of the body, critical gender and sexuality studie

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Dorgan, Kelly A., Kathryn L. Duvall, and Sadie P. Hutson. "Omnibus Survivorship Narratives: Multiple Morbidities Among Female Cancer Survivors in South Central Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1229.

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This study examines the illness narratives of female cancer survivors living in Southern Central Appalachia. Stories of 29 female Appalachian cancer survivors from northeastern Tennessee and southwcstmn Virginia were collected via a mixed methods approach in either a day-long story circle (n=26) or an in-depth interview (n=3), Qualitative content analysis was used to guide an inductive analysis of the tTanscript<;, What emerged was that as participants survived cancer, they also survived other health conditions, their intorsccting stories yielding an omnibus survivorship narrative.

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Pontius, Kathleen S. ""We've done drugs Keith Richards never heard of" : a qualitative study of young adult cancer narratives online /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/7888.

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Moura, Maria Camila Gabriele. "Narrativas de mulheres diagnosticadas com cÃncer de mama no Instagram: um estudo exploratÃrio." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2018. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=20330.

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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior<br>Esta pesquisa intenta analisar, sob o viÃs crÃtico, de que modo se apresentam as narrativas acerca do adoecimento de cÃncer de mama na rede social Instagram. O atual contexto sÃcio-histÃrico, em que tais narrativas se inserem, denominado de Era Digital ou Era Web, Ã profundamente marcado pela lÃgica do consumo, evocando um esforÃo performÃtico e estÃtico, de cunho primordialmente imagÃtico, visando Ã adequaÃÃo a um imperativo de felicidade e superaÃÃo pessoal. Imersas em tal contexto, as redes sociais, dentre elas o Instagram, perm

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Dowling, Dianne. "Narratives of women's breast cancer experience and how this impacts on their working lives." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2016. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/1253/.

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Over 55,000 new breast cancer cases are diagnosed each year and the figures are rising. Most studies show that women want to get back to ‘normal’ and describe how returning to work helps to achieve this. For some, there are wider health implications which may affect their mobility or return to work (RTW). Disabilities are sometimes hidden, for example fatigue and emotional stress may result in a loss of confidence and work ability. Few studies focus on how the structural relations of organizations impact women’s decisions to RTW after treatment. This study contributes to our knowledge and unde

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Petersson, Evelina, and Sofia Lind. "När döden knackar på : Erfarenheter av att vara närstående till en person som är döende i cancer." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-41333.

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Drygt var tredje person i Sverige kommer någon gång vara med om ett cancerbesked. Att få diagnosen cancer kan göra livet annorlunda. Alla som drabbas av cancer dör inte, men många blir aktuella för palliativ vård och går över till ett lindrande skede istället för botande. Sjuksköterskan ansvarar inte bara för patientens välmående utan även de närståendes där vikten läggs på att bedriva en familjefokuserad omvårdnad där inkludering av närstående är viktigt. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att lyfta de närståendes erfarenheter av att leva med en person som är döende i cancer. Studien genomförde

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Christy, Katheryn R. "Investigating the Use of Interactive Narratives for Changing Health Beliefs: A Test of the Model of Interactive Narrative Effects." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461167842.

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Bengtsson, Mathilda, and Julia Friscop. "Kvinnors upplevelser av att leva med bröstcancer : En narrativ studie." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-19695.

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Bakgrund: Globalt sett är bröstcancer en av de vanligaste maligna sjukdomstillstånden bland kvinnor. År 2019 ställdes 522 000 bröstcancerdiagnoser världen över, varav 9000 i Sverige. Detta gör bröstcancer till den vanligaste formen där 20 kvinnor i Sverige insjuknar varje dag. Luminal bröstcancer är den vanligaste typen, och trippelnegativ bröstcancer är den näst vanligaste. För att motverka och bota sjukdomen finns ett antal behandlingsalternativ som kan generera i många olika biverkningar, både fysiska och psykiska. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att belysa kvinnors upplevelser av hur det är a

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Dorgan, Kelly A., Kathryn L. Duvall, and Sadie P. Hutson. "Telling Stories about Cohabitating Morbidities: Female Cancer Survivors’ Interconnecting Illness Narratives in Southern Central Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1266.

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Dorgan, Kelly A., Sadie P. Hutson, Kathryn L. Duvall, Amber E. Kinser, and Joanne M. Hall. "Connecting Place to Disease and Gender: Cohabitating Morbidities in Narratives of Women Cancer Survivors in Southern Central Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1223.

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Drawing on critical feminist narrative inquiry, we explore illness narratives of women cancer survivors living in Southern Central Appalachia via a daylong story circle (n = 26) and individual interviews (n = 3). In our article, we argue that participants functioned as illness genealogists as a consequence of their central location in families, as well as their location in a place (Southern Central Appalachia) characterized by what we call “cohabitating morbidities.” We coined this term to represent the experiences of women survivors living with multiple, sometimes simultaneously occurring ill

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Pontius, Kathleen S. 1981. "'We've Done Drugs Keith Richards Never Heard Of': A Qualitative Study of Young Adult Cancer Narratives Online." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/7888.

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x, 107 p. A print copy of this title is available from the UO Libraries, under the call number: KNIGHT HV547 .P66 2008<br>The purpose of this thesis is to explore the communication young adult cancer survivors develop to cope with the cancer experience. This qualitative study incorporates interviews with 16 young adult cancer patients. Working within the framework of Charland's (1987) theory of constitutive rhetoric, the data reveal that young adult cancer patients do not believe that they are a part of the dominant cancer narrative. However, through the use of Web-based communication re

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Fu, Wai, and 符瑋. "Data-mining as a methodology for explaining written narratives: an application on understanding the breastcancer experience among Hong Kong Chinese women." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39557911.

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Brisley, Adam Leon. "Accessing cancer care in the context of a changing English National Health Service." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654877.

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This thesis is based on 18 months ethnographic fieldwork in and around the National Heath Service (NHS) in Greater Manchester, UK, between 2011 and 2012. The fieldwork focused on practices and experiences of cancer care and the care of other related diseases (e.g. brain tumour, post surgical pain and cancer related mental illnesses) and primarily involved in-depth interview-based case studies with patients, carers and clinicians, as well as participant observation at hospital outpatient clinics and a local cancer centre. Over the past thirty years, the English NHS has been through numerous mar

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de, Cavalho Raiana. "Agency, participation, and cancer stories on Instagram: A narrative analysis of the Networked Oncological Causers in Brazil." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1574249134299928.

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Jones, Neil. "Using narratives to understand the psychosocial impact and meaning making of those diagnosed with a secondary cancer diagnosis." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2014. http://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/1995/.

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As the number of cancer survivors and the duration of survival increases in the UK, there is an increasing interest in psychosocial care, to improve outcomes for cancer patients. Previous literature reviews have focussed on research from around the world. The aim of this review was to look at the evidence for the impact of psychosocial interventions on the mental health and well-being of cancer patients, since the publication of the cCancer Rreform sStrategy in the UK in 2007. The review focused on thirteen studies of interventions, which addressed mental health and well-being in cancer patien

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Reilly, Drew D. "The Narratives of Young Women with BRCA 1/2 Gene Mutation: A Qualitative Analysis." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1910.

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A narrative qualitative research design was used to understand the stories of young women diagnosed with BRCA1 and BRCA 2 genetic mutation. Four participants were selected who met the following criteria: (a) the participant is diagnosed with BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation, b) is within the age range of 18 to 35, (c) is without a cancer diagnosis, and is (d) not currently pregnant and does not have children. The four participants were interviewed through open-ended inquiry. The participants’ narratives proved both similar and dissimilar. The themes were organized into within-case narratives an

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Dorgan, Kelly A., Kathryn L. Duvall, Sadie P. Hutson, and Amber E. Kinser. "Mothered, Mothering & Motherizing in Illness Narratives: What Women Cancer Survivors in Southern Central Appalachia Reveal About Mothering-Disruption." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1221.

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Informed by a mothering-disruption framework, our study examines the illness narratives of women cancer survivors living in Southern Central Appalachia. We collected the stories of twenty-nine women cancer survivors from northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia using a multi-phasic qualitative design. Phase I consisted of women cancer survivors participating in a day-long story circle (n=26). Phase II consisted of women cancer survivors who were unable to attend the story circle ; this sample sub-set participated in in-depth interviews (n=3) designed to capture their illness narratives. Part

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Iannarino, Nicholas T. "Laughing at death: The forms and functions of humor in illness trauma narratives." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1287429452.

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Helmy, Hannah Louise. "“This Isn’t Like Diphtheria, You Know?”: The Sociocultural Context of Human Papillomavirus Immunization, Potential Mandates, and Narratives of Risk Among." Scholar Commons, 2008. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/288.

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Many in the biomedical community have praised the recently released Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, for having the potential to significantly reduce the disease burden of cervical cancer and genital warts. However, complex intersections of ideology, morality, and politics have made this new vaccine considerably contested, particularly as public debate has turned to the ethics of state-mandated HPV vaccination for 11-12 year old girls. Subsequently, the extent to which mandatory vaccinations are accepted by parents and implications regarding the infringement of these coercive meas

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Fu, Wai. "Data-mining as a methodology for explaining written narratives an application on understanding the breast cancer experience among Hong Kong Chinese women /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B39557911.

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Riekert, Yolande. ""Obubomi Bulukhuni/It is a Hard Life, This": Journeys in and narratives of childhood cancer in a South African public healthcare context." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11764.

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This research examines the ways in which a history of social segregation together with present actions by the state interact to inform the nature of healthcare narratives of mothers and children in the case of a childhood cancer diagnosis. I argue that families become internally displaced to seek life-saving treatment for the child diagnosed with cancer. By actively engaging with theories of ‘home’ and ‘households’ I aim to present greater insights into the ways in which people create meanings for these terms in the hospital setting. I argue that my participants come to share many of the chara

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Vold, Veronica. "Graphic Ecologies: Aesthetics of Environmental Equity in Postwar American Comics." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18549.

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In the postwar era of the United States, as military-industrial chemicals leak into airways, waterways, and foodways in unprecedented plumes and cancer clusters, comic art forms generate diverse environmental imaginations. Though historically disparaged as disposable ephemera, comics provide unique access to environmental expression in this critical period. This dissertation analyzes the formal registers of two independent newspaper strips and four graphic cancer narratives for an aesthetics of equity: a set of verbal-visual moves that chart awareness of environmental devastation as determined

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Krook, Caroline. "Se – än lever jag! : Livsåskådning och lärande i livets slutskede." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för samhälle, kultur och lärande (SKL), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7119.

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The purpose of the study has been, by adopting a view of life and a learning perspective, to reach an understanding of the way in which cancer patients in a palliative care context understand and cope with their existential life situation. I asked the following questions: 1) How does their personal view of life influence the patients’ understanding and coping with the illness and existential life situation? 2) What existential questions are central to the patients? 3) What is personal learning all about? 4) What prerequisites are important for fostering the patients’ personal learning? Intervi

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Cudworth, Emily. "Making sense of breast cancer : a narrative study." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/making-sense-of-breast-cancer-a-narrative-study(36717404-9b7c-4fa6-82ed-f15c1c1d0547).html.

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Background and objectives: Despite an abundance of research in the field of psycho-oncology, there is little that has come from the discipline of counselling psychology placing importance on social justice-oriented work of 'giving voice' (by providing a space for storytelling) and 'consciousness raising'. This study explores the experience of breast cancer by generating and analysing individual stories of women with breast cancer. The wider objective of this research is to enhance psychological support offered to women with breast cancer through embracing the process of meaning-making. Method

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Osterstock, Nadia. "Cancer and personal development : a narrative analysis of individuals' experiences /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arps085.pdf.

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Frank, Amanda. "Bland amasoner och eunucker : En kvalitativ studie av patografier av kvinnor med bröstcancer och män med prostatacancer." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Sociologi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-6410.

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Narratives about life-changing events like cancer have become more common in today’s society. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether gender patterns in society can also be found in pathographies about cancer, and further to investigate how gender is expressed in these cancer related narratives. Questions were posed on characteristics of the autobiographical cancer narratives, how gender is constructed by the authors of these narratives, and what these narratives say about gender structures’ liability to change in the individuals affected by this disease. The mate

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Thomas, Sarah Nichole. "Making the Transition: Comparing the Use of Narrative and Non-Narrative Messages to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Cancer Survivors." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460993101.

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Davis, Andrew. "Symptoms of Self-Image: Medical Diagnosis in Contemporary Narrative." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108086.

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Thesis advisor: Laura Tanner<br>Illness touches all of us, both directly and indirectly, and to respond to a reality with physical and psychological ramifications, we turn to diagnosis for answers. The role of diagnosis is to place a name upon a bodily disorder, giving a patient some idea of what has gone wrong in his or her body, and how life may change. At its essence, diagnosis renders a mysterious set of symptoms into a tangible, understandable disease that can, ideally, be recognized and treated. Yet this perspective can seem strangely simplistic. How can a single word or phrase encapsula

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Souza, Elizabethe Cristina Fagundes de. "Bocas, cancer e subjetividades : patografias em analise." [s.n.], 2003. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/308533.

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Orientador: Carlos Botazzo<br>Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciencias Medicas<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-03T16:35:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Souza_ElizabetheCristinaFagundesde_D.pdf: 11841666 bytes, checksum: e8a7086f664083e8d361d2913cd2dcaa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003<br>Resumo: A partir da narrativa da vida doente de pessoas com câncer de boca, buscou-se compreender como o adoecer se produz, as suas repercussões e as maneiras como os serviços de saúde lidam com elas. Utilizou-se a noção de patografia para construir as hestórias patog

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Brown, Marvellè. "African and African-Caribbean Londoners' experiences of cancer services : a narrative approach." Thesis, University of West London, 2014. https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1001/.

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Cancer is a major illness in the United Kingdom with differences in prevalence, morbidity and mortality, across the population. The focus of this study is two-fold: firstly, to explore African and African-Caribbean Londoners' experience of cancer services and secondly to use a narrative approach, focused on cancer, specifically related to African and African-Caribbean Londoners, an approach that has not been undertaken previously. Therefore, I also aim to explore whether such a research approach has value as a reseearch tool for these communities. Five research questions frame the focus of the

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Strydom, Munro. "Kanker- en niekankerpasiënte se belewenis van die luistergroeptegniek / M. Strydom." Thesis, North-West University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/1277.

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The aim with this research was to determine how cancer patients (the inner group) and non-cancer patients (the listening group) experience the listening group technique. A qualitative research design was utilised. The reasons for undertaking this research were the following: Experience has indicated that the listening group technique may be an effective method to help individuals discover alternative life stories besides the dominant stories that direct their lives. Some authors have expressed the need for therapists to do research on the listening group technique to ascertain its effectivenes

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Caswell, Stephen Edward. "Fibromyalgia : insights from narrative analysis : cognitive factors associated with depression in breast cancer." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.695268.

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Fibromyalgia: insights from narrative analysis. Drawing on narrative data from an autobiographical interview with a man who has fibromyalgia, this study provides an exploration of how stories from his life are used in the construction of a preferred identity The analysis focuses on thematic content, linguistic and structural phenomena, and on dialogic-performable aspects of the narrative. Themes are discussed In relation to the construction of a preferred identity. As narratives are co-constructed the contributive role of interpersonal, social positional, and ideological aspects of the intervi

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Gates, Rose A. "Narrative shifts : patients' stories of cancer and the experiences of telling their stories /." Connect to full text via ProQuest. IP filtered, 2006.

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Thesis (Ph.D. in Nursing) -- University of Colorado, 2006.<br>Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 278-301). Free to UCDHSC affiliates. Online version available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations;

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Witham, Gary. "Carer positioning in supporting someone living with cancer and dementia : a narrative approach." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2017. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/619934/.

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Background: Evidence suggest that for people living with cancer and dementia the exploration of memory loss is superficially based upon patient or carer disclosure. Patients tend to underplay the importance and extent of memory problems in cancer consultations and staff found assessment challenging, avoiding exploring memory without an obvious therapeutic gain. Compared to cancer patients without dementia, people treated for cancer with pre-existing dementia are diagnosed at a later or unknown stage, receiving less treatment with more treatment complications and poorer survival. This highlight

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Lundgren, Adina, and Frida Karlsson. "Livet som ung vuxen med cancer : En narrativ studie av bloggar." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-15021.

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Cancer är ett samlingsbegrepp för elakartade tumörceller som självständigt kan växa och spridas i kroppen. Behandlingar till cancern har en mängd biverkningar som tillsammans med sjukdomen kan påverka livskvaliteten. Vid sjukdom är stöd från familj och närstående viktigt. Sjuksköterskan har en stor hälsofrämjande potential i mötet med patienten och kan bidra till att skapa förutsättningar för att uppleva bästa möjliga livskvalitet. Syftet för denna studie är att beskriva unga vuxnas upplevelser av att leva med en cancersjukdom. Studien är en kvalitativ analys av narrativer. Materialet består a

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Hughes, Nicholas David. "Living with cancer in old age : a qualitative systematic review and a narrative inquiry." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2651/.

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‘Living with Cancer in Old Age’ is an exploration of older people’s experiences of living with cancer, using qualitative research methods. A qualitative systematic review of international literature found that the experience of living with cancer in old age is characterised by ambiguity. There are sources of suffering, imposed by cancer itself, by treatments for cancer and by co-morbid disease. At the same time older people have access to sources of comfort and strength, both internal (attitudes of mental fortitude) and external (strong relationships with family, friends, communities and healt

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