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Engendering the Dread Disease: Women, Men, and Cancer

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  • Reagan, L.J.

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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 neeessary. The paper also contributes to scholarship concerned with the question of how people develop their ideas about risk of disease.

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  • Reagan, L.J., 1997. "Engendering the Dread Disease: Women, Men, and Cancer," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 87(11), pages 1779-1787.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.87.11.1779_8
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.87.11.1779
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