The cancer may come back: experiencing and managing worries of relapse in a North Norwegian village after treatment
Little is known about how people living in the aftermath of cancer treatment experience and manage worries about possible signs of cancer relapse, not as an individual enterprise but as socially embedded management. One-year ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in a coastal village of under 3000 inh...
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ftuniaarhuspubl:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/31e90bf0-a7e0-4941-af79-e836b4416248 2024-05-19T07:45:59+00:00 The cancer may come back: experiencing and managing worries of relapse in a North Norwegian village after treatment Skowronski, Magdalena Risør, Mette Bech Andersen, Rikke Sand Foss, Nina 2018-06-18 https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/31e90bf0-a7e0-4941-af79-e836b4416248 https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2017.1391172 dan dan https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/publications/31e90bf0-a7e0-4941-af79-e836b4416248 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Skowronski , M , Risør , M B , Andersen , R S & Foss , N 2018 , ' The cancer may come back: experiencing and managing worries of relapse in a North Norwegian village after treatment ' , Anthropology & Medicine , bind 26 , nr. 3 , s. 296-310 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2017.1391172 Anthropology of emotions Northern Norway aftermath of cancer treatment relapse worries article 2018 ftuniaarhuspubl https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2017.1391172 2024-04-24T23:44:19Z Little is known about how people living in the aftermath of cancer treatment experience and manage worries about possible signs of cancer relapse, not as an individual enterprise but as socially embedded management. One-year ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in a coastal village of under 3000 inhabitants in northern Norway. Ten villagers who had undergone cancer treatment from six months to five years earlier were the main informants. During fieldwork, the first author conducted qualitative, semi-structured monthly interviews with them, and participated in their everyday activities and relationships, including families, friends and co-villagers. In this article, we contemplate human emotions as arising in contexts of transactions, capable of creating social realities. By including this perspective, we highlight how people who recover from cancer construct and experience worry about possible relapse in relation to close family members, friends and co-villagers in the socially closely-knit and relatively isolated village. These emotional experiences emerge through relationships with others have communicative characteristics and take place in interaction with the social environment of their village. While informants attempt to protect family members by avoiding sharing worries with them, they express the need to share their worries within friendships. However, they experience both comfort and challenges in managing their worries in relation to acquaintances in the village. Overall, the study enhances understanding of the social embeddedness of emotions in everyday life, by revealing how worries of relapse of cancer configure and relate to various social contexts. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Norway Aarhus University: Research Anthropology & Medicine 26 3 296 310 |
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Little is known about how people living in the aftermath of cancer treatment experience and manage worries about possible signs of cancer relapse, not as an individual enterprise but as socially embedded management. One-year ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in a coastal village of under 3000 inhabitants in northern Norway. Ten villagers who had undergone cancer treatment from six months to five years earlier were the main informants. During fieldwork, the first author conducted qualitative, semi-structured monthly interviews with them, and participated in their everyday activities and relationships, including families, friends and co-villagers. In this article, we contemplate human emotions as arising in contexts of transactions, capable of creating social realities. By including this perspective, we highlight how people who recover from cancer construct and experience worry about possible relapse in relation to close family members, friends and co-villagers in the socially closely-knit and relatively isolated village. These emotional experiences emerge through relationships with others have communicative characteristics and take place in interaction with the social environment of their village. While informants attempt to protect family members by avoiding sharing worries with them, they express the need to share their worries within friendships. However, they experience both comfort and challenges in managing their worries in relation to acquaintances in the village. Overall, the study enhances understanding of the social embeddedness of emotions in everyday life, by revealing how worries of relapse of cancer configure and relate to various social contexts. |
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The cancer may come back: experiencing and managing worries of relapse in a North Norwegian village after treatment |
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Skowronski , M , Risør , M B , Andersen , R S & Foss , N 2018 , ' The cancer may come back: experiencing and managing worries of relapse in a North Norwegian village after treatment ' , Anthropology & Medicine , bind 26 , nr. 3 , s. 296-310 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2017.1391172 |
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