Print media coverage of environmental causation of breast cancer

Article Abstract:

This article provides an analysis of newspaper, newsweekly, science periodical, and women magazine articles regarding their portrayal of breast cancer causation. The authors found little coverage of environmental causation and corporate and governmental responsibility, and maintain the articles focused on causation factors such as genetics, diet, childbearing, and other personal factors.

Health aspects, Women, Diseases, Women's health, Environmentally induced diseases, Environmental illness, Etiology (Medicine)

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Embodied health movements: new approaches to social movements in health

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The article identifies three forms of health social movements: constituency-based, which targets demographic factors in health care services; health access, which targets equitable access to services; and embodied health movements, which target disease-based science and treatment. Social movement theory is applied to the last form, using breast cancer as an illustration.

Health Care and Social Assistance, HEALTH SERVICES, Public Health Care, Administration of Public Health Programs, Health Programs-Total Govt, Administration of Human Resource Programs, Health Programs, Public health, Social movements, Patient advocacy

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Framing as a cultural resource in health social movements: funding activism and the breast cancer movement in the US 1990-1993

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The article identifies three interconnected, culturally resonant frames used to shift perspectives of breast cancer from an individual concern to a priority public health issue. Social constructionalist analysis is applied to media accounts of funding activism and Congressional testimony.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Research and Testing Services, Civic and Social Organizations, Cancer & Cell R&D, Social services, not elsewhere classified, Fund Raising Agencies, Cancer research, Social science research, Fund raising, Oncology, Experimental

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