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Breast Cancer
Investigators at Suffolk University zero in on breast cancer
June 5th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Sociology of Health & Illness, "This paper introduces the concept of holistic sickening to the sociological literature on illness narratives. Drawing on interviews with 46 Boston-area complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners who treat breast cancer patients, we found that the CAM practitioners redefine their patients' breast cancer diagnoses in ways that expand and transform their illness, sometimes into a lifetime journey." "The practitioners, for the most part, espouse broad and complex etiological frameworks that help give meaning to the woman's cancer. They tend to speak about breast...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-06-05)
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