SOC212H1 Chapter Notes -Michel Foucault, Alternative Medicine, Normative Social Influence
Document Summary
Cancer diagnosis as discursive capture: phenomenological repercussions of being positioned within dominant constructions of cancer. Paper discuss challenges of being diagnosed with cancer, reviews dominant discourses about cancer in western industrialize cultures. Looks at implications how cancer may be experienced and how it may be lived with (social/psychological consequences) This paper is concerned with the social and psychological consequences of being positioned within some of the dominant discourse associated with cancer diagnosis in contemporary english-speaking western industrialized cultures ie. uk, usa, australia, new zealand. Author reflects on own experiences as a cancer patient, trying to make sense of situation and what resource were available to her, how people treated the cancer topic, how she understood it. Focus on how a medical diagnosis positions the patient in relation to healthy" others in society rather than in relation to medical professionals which appears to be a more common focus in social research in this area.
