Open AccessBook Review. Alex Broom and Katherine Kenny’s Survivorship: A Sociology of Cancer in Everyday Life
Author(s) -
Ágnes Sántha
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
papers in arts and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2784-143X
DOI - 10.52885/pah.v1i2.74
Subject(s) - broom , everyday life , survivorship curve , sociology , perspective (graphical) , cancer survivorship , gender studies , psychoanalysis , gerontology , psychology , history , political science , demography , art , medicine , law , visual arts , archaeology , population
Cancer has become the second largest cause of death and a central concern in modern societies. Despite increasing survival rates, there is hardly a family that is not directly engaged with the fight against cancer. The brand new book Survivorship: A Sociology of Cancer in Everyday Life (appeared as recently as March 2021) approaches the phenomenonfrom the the perspective of everyday lives of survivors, their micro-social networks, and health care professionals. Authored by Alex Broom and Katherine Kenny, sociologists from the University of Sydney, and elaborated with a range of qualitative methods, the chapters of the book address issues of social norms, individual tensions of survivors, and emotional approaches to survivorship.