Breast cancer: survival and social stigma

Authors

  • Maria Florencia Gonzàlez Leone Università Giustino Fortunato, Benevento
  • Immacolata Di Napoli Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
  • Caterina Arcidiacono Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/6160

Keywords:

social stigma, survival, breast cancer in Argentina, public hospital, lack of economic resources

Abstract

This article describes a research carried out in an oncology ward of a hospital in Northern Argentina. The research involved survivors with breast cancer who perform follow-up checks at 1-2-3-4- and 5 years. Twenty focused narrative interviews were collected in this public hospital hosting economically disadvantaged people without social security. The textual materials collected were analyzed by Atlas.ti software.

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Author Biographies

Maria Florencia Gonzàlez Leone, Università Giustino Fortunato, Benevento

Maria Florencia Gonzàlez Leone: Psychologist, PhD in Human Mind and Gender studies. Master in Family and Institutional Mediation. She teaches Clinical Psychology at the Giustino Fortunato University in Benevento, Italy

Immacolata Di Napoli, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Immacolata Di Napoli, fellowship in the European project ViDaCS at the Department of Humanities of the Federico II University of Naples. She has carried out research in the field of Women’s associations and in the planning of services to support women’s well-being. Her research interest is the intimate partner violence, publishing in national and international journals.

Caterina Arcidiacono, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Caterina Arcidiacono: Full Professor of Community Psychology, Department of Humanities. Federico II University of Naples (Italy). Director of EU-project ViDaCs:Violent Dads in Children shoues.https://www.facebook.com/vidacsEU/
Editor in Chief of the international online journal on gender studies: La Camera Blu http://www.tema.unina.it/index.php/camerablu/index.
Email: caterina.arcidiacono@unina.it; skype: caterina_arcidiacono; www.communitypsychology.eu
Facebook: psicologia.protocollonapoli@gmail.com

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Published

2019-07-10

How to Cite

Gonzàlez Leone, M. F., Di Napoli, I., & Arcidiacono, C. (2019). Breast cancer: survival and social stigma. La Camera Blu, (20). https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/6160

Issue

No. 20 (2019): Sexist stigmas and genderism

Section

The Topic

License

La camera blu is an open access, online publication, with licence  CCPL Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

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