ArticleMedicine, health care, and philosophy2019
Sharing lives, sharing bodies: partners negotiating breast cancer experiences.
Article in Medicine, health care, and philosophy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04172350 (Developing and Examining Preliminary Effects of An Innovative Care-improvement Smartphone-based Perioperative Solution for Women Undergoing Breast Cancer Surgery), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Developing and Examining Preliminary Effects of An Innovative Care-improvement Smartphone-based Perioperative Solution for Women Undergoing Breast Cancer Surgery (iCareBreast): A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
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Abstract
By drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy's philosophy of ontological relationality, this article explores what it means to be a 'we' in breast cancer. What are the characteristics-the extent and diversity-of couples' relationally lived experiences of bodily changes in breast cancer? Through analyzing duo interviews with diagnosed women and their partners, four ways of sharing an embodied life are identified. (1) While 'being different together', partners have different, albeit connected kinds of experiences of breast cancer. (2) While 'being there for you', partners take care of each other in mutually dependent ways. (3) While 'being reconnected to you', partners (re-)relate to each other through intimacy and sexuality. (4) While 'being like you', partners synchronize their embodied daily lives to one another, sometimes up to the point that the self cannot be distinguished from the other anymore. These ways reveal that being a 'we' involves complex affective, bodily encounters in which the many fault lines that both separate partners into individual selves and join them together as a unity are continuously reshaped and negotiated. Being a 'we' may be understood as something we have to do. Therefore, in being true to the legacy of Nancy, we argue at the end of this article for a sensible praxis of sharing a life and body, particularly in breast cancer.
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