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- Title
Engendering the dread disease: women, men, and cancer.
- Authors
Reagan, L J
- Abstract
This paper, based on an analysis of cancer articles published in popular periodical literature since the early part of the century, argues that gender has played a key role in medical and popular understandings of cancer. Cancer education, the author finds, has taught women and men different things. Public health materials created with the intention of improving health through education actually send a multiplicity of messages, not all of them helpful. This essay suggests that public health messages targeted by sex are problematic, although perhaps necessary. The paper also contributes to scholarship concerned with the question of how people develop their ideas about risk of disease.
- Publication
American journal of public health, 1997, Vol 87, Issue 11, p1779
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2105/ajph.87.11.1779