ANTHRO 134A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Bsc Young Boys, Testicular Cancer
6 Oct 2016
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Young boys and men cannot play high impact sports. The playing of high impact sports is highly linked to masculinity. This is how fathers and sons bond together; fathers coaching the team and playing with his son. It means that you cannot participate in this very important part of life and people may view you differently: many young boys would rather have a visible disease so that people are not viewing them as normal. Disease is something that might happen in your body but illness is something that happens in your life. Illness plays a major role in how they experience this. However, this may differ time to time and place to place. Not every person will be upset that they cannot play rugby. Disease is universal but illness varies: ex: chronic fatigue syndrome and the delegitimation of illness. Sontag: metaphors can render disease socially as well as physically mortifying and have a profound affect on the illness experience.
