No less a man: Reconstructing identity after prostate cancer

Communication and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-109

  Bokhour, Barbara G ^a,c   Powel, Lorrie L ^b   Clark, Jack A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Identity; Narrative; Prostate cancer; Self; Social languages

Indexed keywords

LEUPRORELIN; TESTOSTERONE;

BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INCONTINENCE; LANGUAGE; LIBIDO; LIBIDO DISORDER; MASCULINITY; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL FUNCTION;

EID: 34548283574     PISSN: 16121783     EISSN: 16133625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CAM.2007.010     Document Type: Review

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