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This multidisciplinary analysis links epidemiologic, cultural, social, and medical analyses of cancer prevention, detection, and care. The contributors demonstrate that different ethnic groups and cultures have distinct concepts of cancer prevention and control. These ideas are dynamic, shaped by personal and group histories, social networks, technologies, politics, economics, religions, linguistics, and other environmental conditions.
Cross-cultural writings about cancer make this book useful to professionals and students in the disciplines of medicine, nursing, public health, sociology, anthropology, and social welfare. The 15 articles reveal that cancer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors are diverse cross-cultural constructs resulting from distinct experiences. Ideas and behaviors about prevention and control may be shared or individual and idiosyncratic. The book is composed of three sections: I. Cancer Beliefs and Behaviors; II. Interventions in Review; III. New Strategies for Cancer Research. The authors, including anthropologists, epidemiologists, health educators, nurses, and physicians, explicate notions of prevention and control, and assess interventions and methodologies that illustrate generally ignored successes in decreased mortality and morbidity among members of specific populations.
List of contents
Introduction by Jennie R. Joe
Cancer Beliefs and BehaviorsNegotiating Medical Authority: Contradictions in Oncology Practice by Martha Balshem
Patients and Alternative Cancer Therapies by David J. Hess
The Metastasis of Witchcraft: The Interrelationship between Traditional and Biomedical Concepts of Cancer in Southern Mexico by Linda M. Hunt
African-American Women and Breast Cancer: Failures of Biomedicine? by Rhonda J. Moore
American Indian Cancer Discourse and the Prevention of Illness by Diane Weiner
Interventions in ReviewKnowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Alaska Native Women Regarding Cervical and Breast Cancer by Anne P. Lanier and Janet J. Kelly
"Pathways to Health": A School-Based Cancer Prevention Project for Southwestern Native American Youth by Sally M. Davis and Leslie Cunningham-Sabo
Effectiveness of Smoking-Cessation Training and Effectiveness among African-Americans by Bruce Allen, Jr.
It Works! Breast Cancer Programs for African-American Women by Bettye Green and Ellen Werner
Implementing Effective Recruitment Strategies for a Cancer-Prevention Trial in Older Hispanic Women: A Clinical Trial Model by Lovell A. Jones, et al.
Native American Cancer Survivors: Agents for Change by Judith Kaur
Breast Cancer Screening in Asian and Pacific Islander American Women by Marjorie Kagawa-Singer and Annette E. Maxwell
New Strategies for Cancer ResearchDeveloping Culturally Competent Community Based Interventions by Linda Burhansstipanov
Physical Activity and Cancer in Hispanic Populations: Is There a Relationship? by Lisa Staten
Diet-Cancer Associations: Insights Offered by Native Americans by Nicolette I. Teufel
Concluding Remarks by John Molina and Diane Weiner
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
DIANE WEINER is a cultural anthropologist researching the relationship of chronic illness and cancer in American Indian populations./e She is a staff research associate at the American Indian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.
