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Preventing and Controlling Cancer in North America A Cross-Cultural Perspective
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Diane Weiner
Book Code: C6180
ISBN: 0-275-96180-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96180-0
264 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/1999
List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • This volume should be of interest to a broad range of readers interested in conducting usable health research.
    —Social Science & Medicine
Description: This multidisciplinary analysis links epidemiologic, cultural, social, and medical analyses of cancer prevention, detection, and care. The contributors demonstrate that different ethnic groups and cultures have distinct concepts of cancer prevention and control. These ideas are dynamic, shaped by personal and group histories, social networks, technologies, politics, economics, religions, linguistics, and other environmental conditions. Cross-cultural writings about cancer make this book useful to professionals and students in the disciplines of medicine, nursing, public health, sociology, anthropology, and social welfare. The 15 articles reveal that cancer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors are diverse cross-cultural constructs resulting from distinct experiences. Ideas and behaviors about prevention and control may be shared or individual and idiosyncratic. The book is composed of three sections: I. Cancer Beliefs and Behaviors; II. Interventions in Review; III. New Strategies for Cancer Research. The authors, including anthropologists, epidemiologists, health educators, nurses, and physicians, explicate notions of prevention and control, and assess interventions and methodologies that illustrate generally ignored successes in decreased mortality and morbidity among members of specific populations.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Jennie R. Joe
  • Cancer Beliefs and Behaviors
  • Negotiating Medical Authority: Contradictions in Oncology Practice by Martha Balshem
  • Patients and Alternative Cancer Therapies by David J. Hess
  • The Metastasis of Witchcraft: The Interrelationship between Traditional and Biomedical Concepts of Cancer in Southern Mexico by Linda M. Hunt
  • African-American Women and Breast Cancer: Failures of Biomedicine? by Rhonda J. Moore
  • American Indian Cancer Discourse and the Prevention of Illness by Diane Weiner
  • Interventions in Review
  • Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Alaska Native Women Regarding Cervical and Breast Cancer by Anne P. Lanier and Janet J. Kelly
  • "Pathways to Health": A School-Based Cancer Prevention Project for Southwestern Native American Youth by Sally M. Davis and Leslie Cunningham-Sabo
  • Effectiveness of Smoking-Cessation Training and Effectiveness among African-Americans by Bruce Allen, Jr.
  • It Works! Breast Cancer Programs for African-American Women by Bettye Green and Ellen Werner
  • Implementing Effective Recruitment Strategies for a Cancer-Prevention Trial in Older Hispanic Women: A Clinical Trial Model by Lovell A. Jones, et al.
  • Native American Cancer Survivors: Agents for Change by Judith Kaur
  • Breast Cancer Screening in Asian and Pacific Islander American Women by Marjorie Kagawa-Singer and Annette E. Maxwell
  • New Strategies for Cancer Research
  • Developing Culturally Competent Community Based Interventions by Linda Burhansstipanov
  • Physical Activity and Cancer in Hispanic Populations: Is There a Relationship? by Lisa Staten
  • Diet-Cancer Associations: Insights Offered by Native Americans by Nicolette I. Teufel
  • Concluding Remarks by John Molina and Diane Weiner
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 99-19202
LCC Class: RC279
Dewey Class: 362
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