Constructing expertise: Inequality and the consequences of information-seeking by breast cancer patients

Illness Crisis and Loss

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-185

  Clark, Jacqueline ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Emotion; Social class; Support groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244467952     PISSN: 10541373     EISSN: 15526968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/105413730501300207     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Altman, R. (1996). Waking up, fighting back: The politics of breast cancer. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.
2. Antonovsky, A. (1987). Unraveling the mystery of health: How people manage stress and stay well. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
3. Bloom, J. R., & Spiegel, D. (1984). The relationship of two dimensions of social support to the psychological well-being and social functioning of women with advanced breast cancer. Social Science and Medicine, 19(8), pp. 831-837.
4. Cahill, S. E., & Eggleston, R. A. (1994). Managing emotions in public: The case of wheelchair users. Social Psychology Quarterly, 57(4), pp. 300-312.
5. Charmaz, K. (2001). Grounded theory. In R. M. Emerson (Ed.), Contemporary field research: Perspectives and formulations (2nd ed., pp. 335-352). Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland.
6. Erickson, R. J. (1997). Putting emotions to work (Or, coming to terms with a contradiction in terms). In R. J. Erickson & B. Cuthbertson-Johnson (Eds.), Social perspectives on emotion (pp. 3-18). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
7. Francis, L. E. (1997). Ideology and interpersonal emotion management: Redefining identity in two support groups. Social Psychology Quarterly, 60(2), 153-171.
8. Frank, A. W. (1991). At the will of the body: Reflections on illness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
9. Glanz, K., & Lerman, C. (1992). Psychosocial impact of breast cancer: A critical review. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 14(3), 204-212.
10. Glaser, B. G., & Strauss, A. L. (1967). The discovery of grounded theory: Strategies for qualitative research. Chicago: Aldine.
11. Gotzche, P., & Olsen, O. (2000). Is screening for breast cancer with mammography justifiable? The Lancet, 355(9198), 129-134.
12. Haas, J., & Shaffir, W. (1987). Becoming doctors: The adoption of a cloak of competence. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
13. Karp, D. A. (1996). Speaking of sadness: Depression, disconnection, and the meanings of illness. New York: Oxford.
14. Lareau, A. (2000). Home advantage: Social class and parental intervention in elementary education (2nd ed.). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
15. Love, S. M., with Lindsey, K. (2000). Dr. Susan Love's breast book (3rd ed.). Cambridge, MA: Perseus.
16. Mason-Schrock, D. (1996). Transsexuals' narrative construction of the "true self." Social Psychology Quarterly, 59(3), 176-192.
17. McKenzie, H., & Crouch, M. (2004). Discordant feelings in the lifeworld of cancer survivors. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 5(2), 139-157.
18. Sandstrom, K. L. (1990). Confronting deadly disease: The drama of identity construction among gay men with AIDS. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 19(3), 271-294.
19. Sandstrom, K. L. (1996). Searching for information, understanding, and self-value: The utilization of peer support groups by gay men with HIV/AIDS. Social Work in Healthcare, 23(4), 51-74.
20. Spiegel, D. (1979). Psychological support for women with metastatic carcinoma. Psychosomatics, 20(11), pp. 780-787.
21. Spiegel, D. (1993). Psychosocial intervention in cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 55(5), 1198-1205.
22. Taylor, V. (2000). Emotions and identity in women's self-help movements. In S. Stryker, T. J. Owens, & R. W. White (Eds.), Self, identity, and social movements (pp. 271-299). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
23. Thomas, D. B., Gao, D. L., Ray, R. M., Wang, W. W., Allison, C. J., Chen, F. L., Porter, P., Hu, Y. W., Zhao, G. L., Pan, L. D., Li, W., Wu, C., Coriaty, Z., Evans, I., Lin, M. G., Stalsberg, H., & Self, S. G. (2002). Randomized trial of breast self-examination in Shanghai: Final results. Journal of National Cancer Institute, 94(19), 1445-1457.
24. Thumma, S. (1991). Negotiating a religious identity: The case of the gay evangelical. Sociological Analysis, 52(4), 333-347.
25. Waitzkin, H. (1991). The politics of medical encounters: How patients and doctors deal with social problems. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
26. Weihs, K. (1996). Dilemmas in coping with breast cancer. Families, Systems, and Health, 14(1), 89-93.
27. Wiener, C. L. (1975). The burden of rheumatoid arthritis: Tolerating the uncertainty. Social Science and Medicine, 9(2), 97-104.
28. Wolkomir, M. (2001). Emotion work, commitment, and the authentication of the self: The case of gay and ex-gay Christian support groups. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 30(3), 305-334.