• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Rhetoric of Breast Cancer: Patient-to-Patient Discourse in an Online Community

Rhetoric of Breast Cancer: Patient-to-Patient Discourse in an Online Community

Hardcover

Series: Lexington Studies in Health Communication, Book 22

Women's HealthGeneral ReferenceCancer

ISBN10: 1498552447
ISBN13: 9781498552448
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Sep 22 2017
Pages: 190
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

More and more women are searching the Internet for medical information. Women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer search for information and participate in online communities--groups that gather in established online spaces to interact about their diagnoses of breast cancer. They share their own struggles and emotions with their own language: the rhetoric of breast cancer. They ask questions, share experiences, create friendships, discuss their disease processes, and present their illness narratives. However, they also create ethical dilemmas for online researchers and privacy issues as they share information that is legally protected through HIPAA.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Cancer