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dc.contributor.authorSkowronski, Magdalena
dc.contributor.authorRisør, Mette Bech
dc.contributor.authorAndersen, Rikke Sand
dc.contributor.authorFoss, Nina
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-05T12:09:51Z
dc.date.available2019-02-05T12:09:51Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-18
dc.description.abstractLittle is known about how people living in the aftermath of cancer treatment experience and manage worries about possible signs of cancer relapse, not as an individual enterprise but as socially embedded management. One-year ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in a coastal village of under 3000 inhabitants in northern Norway. Ten villagers who had undergone cancer treatment from six months to five years earlier were the main informants. During fieldwork, the first author conducted qualitative, semi-structured monthly interviews with them, and participated in their everyday activities and relationships, including families, friends and co-villagers. In this article, we contemplate human emotions as arising in contexts of transactions, capable of creating social realities. By including this perspective, we highlight how people who recover from cancer construct and experience worry about possible relapse in relation to close family members, friends and co-villagers in the socially closely-knit and relatively isolated village. These emotional experiences emerge through relationships with others have communicative characteristics and take place in interaction with the social environment of their village. While informants attempt to protect family members by avoiding sharing worries with them, they express the need to share their worries within friendships. However, they experience both comfort and challenges in managing their worries in relation to acquaintances in the village. Overall, the study enhances understanding of the social embeddedness of emotions in everyday life, by revealing how worries of relapse of cancer configure and relate to various social contexts.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in <i>Anthropology & Medicine</i> on 18 June 2018, available online: <a href=http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13648470.2017.1391172> http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13648470.2017.1391172</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSkowronski, M., Risør, M.B., Andersen, R.S. & Foss, N. (2018). The cancer may come back: experiencing and managing worries of relapse in a North Norwegian village after treatment. <i>Anthropology & Medicine</i>. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2017.1391172en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1592338
dc.identifier.doidoi.org/10.1080/13648470.2017.1391172
dc.identifier.issn1364-8470
dc.identifier.issn1469-2910
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/14618
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.ispartofSkrowronski, M. (2019). ‘Will I get cancer again?’ An ethnography of worries, healing landscapes and sensation-to-symptom processes among people living in the aftermath of cancer in rural Norway. (Doctoral thesis). <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15065>https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15065</a>
dc.relation.journalAnthropology & Medicine
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCN/HELSEVEL/222144/Norway/Sensing illness in everyday life: Care-seeking and perception of symptoms among chronic cancer patients//en_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Social anthropology: 250en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosialantropologi: 250en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800en_US
dc.subjectAnthropology of emotionsen_US
dc.subjectrelapseen_US
dc.subjectaftermath of cancer treatmenten_US
dc.subjectNorthern Norwayen_US
dc.subjectworriesen_US
dc.titleThe cancer may come back: experiencing and managing worries of relapse in a North Norwegian village after treatmenten_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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