Gender Schema and Prostate Cancer: Veterans' Cultural Model of Masculinity

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 175-204

  Stansbury, James P ^a   Mathewson Chapman, Marianne ^b   Grant, Kathryn E ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive methods; Gender; Masculinity; Prostate cancer; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MASCULINITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATE SURGERY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOLDIER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENDER IDENTITY; INTERVIEW; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REFERENCE VALUE; URINE INCONTINENCE; VETERAN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CULTURE; GENDER IDENTITY; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; URINARY INCONTINENCE; VETERANS;

EID: 0037530295     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740306765     Document Type: Article

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