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Life with, after, or beyond cancer
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Life with, after, or beyond cancer
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breast cancer survivorship and the new normal
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Hemler
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Jennifer R.
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1972-
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Jennifer R. Hemler
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Karen A
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Karen A Cerulo
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chair
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Deborah
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Deborah Carr
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Horwitz
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Allan Horwitz
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Rene Almeling
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2015
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2015-10
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2015
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I examine how women “move on,” or are unable to, after a diagnosis of breast cancer. I interviewed 80 survivors of various types and stages of breast cancer to explore the relationship between how breast cancer survivors think about cancer and how they manage the daily consequences of this disease, including its effects on identity. My main objective was to examine the cognitive strategies and social practices survivors employ for living with (a history of having had) cancer. Cancer experience is undoubtedly shaped by factors like disease stage and type, treatments received, time since diagnosis and treatment, age, and social location. But many of my participants, across categories, described bracketing some aspects of their experience while holding onto a certain degree of ontological insecurity as they redefined their lives after, with, or beyond cancer. Drawing on ontological insecurity enabled them to remain attuned to their selves: they used cancer to help them redraw boundaries in their lives and focus attention on their selves in ways they were not doing previously. While self-regulatory health practices, feminist ideologies/the women’s health movement, and environmental awareness overlap in breast cancer survivorship to produce activated patients and actualized subjectivities, my participants also discussed how the existential and medical uncertainties of their experiences led them to create new spaces for meaning in their lives. However, while many of my participants wanted to use cancer as a catalyst for self-growth or change across life domains, certainly not all of them were able to do so. Survivorship programs are critical in this regard. They can help survivors harness the uncertainty they feel instead of allowing it to become paralyzing or debilitating. Many survivors need help framing ontological insecurity as a resource to employ, not something to move beyond; but, moreover, they need spaces in which they can acknowledge these uncertainties as part of their new realities.
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Sociology
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Breast--Cancer
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Breast cancer patients
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Cancer--Patients
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (ix, 388 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Jennifer R. Hemler
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ETD doctoral
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Jennifer
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2015-10-31
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2017-10-30
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 30th, 2017.
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