Marked bodies and selves: A literary-semiotic perspective on breast cancer and identity

Communication and Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-152

  Henriksen, Nina ^a   Hansen, Helle Ploug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast reconstruction; Identity; Literary semiotic analysis; Narrative; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST TUMOR; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; NARRATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77952975106     PISSN: 16121783     EISSN: 16133625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/cam.v6i2.143     Document Type: Article

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