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Technology and alternative cancer therapies: An analysis of heterodoxy and constructivism

Theories of the construction of technology are reviewed from the wider interdisciplinary conversation known as science and technology studies (STS) and from the growing field of the anthropology of science and technology.

Tags: alternative medicine, cancer, medical technology

From simple technology to complex arena: Classification of Pap smears, 1917-90

Explores historical constructions of Pap smear cassification systems from 1917 to 1990.

Tags: cancer, women's health

Signifying the pandemics: Metaphors of AIDS, cancer, and heart disease

Offers a symbolic analysis of the cultural construction and signification of three of the major "pandemics" of the late 20th century: AIDS, cancer, and heart disease.

Tags: cancer, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, semiotics

Moral reasoning and the meaning of cancer: Causal explanations of oncologists and patients in southern Mexico

Examines the distinct perspectives of physicians and patients, and provides an illustration of how biomedical culture articulates with the local moral construct of a particular community.

Tags: cancer, illness, oncology

Can there be a "cultural epidemiology"?

Examines the possibilities for interdisciplinary research, taking cancer epidemiology as a case in point.

Tags: cancer, culture, epidemiology

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