An ‘unholy alliance’ of existential proportions: Negotiating discourses with men's experiences of cancer and aging

Hammond, Chad; Teucher, Ulrich; Duggleby, Wendy; Thomas, Roanne

doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2011.10.005

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“…This situation represents a major challenge for specialized healthcare in the years to come. Nevertheless, the quantity of research on older people in palliative care remains quite limited (Andersson et al, Hallberg & Edberg, 2008; Evers et al, 2002; Goldstein & Morrison, 2005; Hammond et al, 2012).…”

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How older people with incurable cancer experience daily living: A qualitative study from Norway

Haug

Danbolt

Kvigne³

et al. 2014

Pall Supp Care

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Older people with incurable cancer are still strongly connected to life in their daily living. The knowledge that the potential for resilience remains despite aging and serious decline in health is considered a source of comfort for older people living with this disease. Insights into the processes of existential meaning-making and resilience are seen as useful in order to increase our understanding of how older people adapt to adversity, and how their responses may help to protect them from some of the difficulties inherent to aging. Healthcare professionals can make use of this information in treatment planning and for identification of psychosocial and sociocultural resources to support older people and to strengthen patients' life resources.

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How older people with incurable cancer experience daily living: A qualitative study from Norway

Haug

Danbolt

Kvigne³

et al. 2014

Pall Supp Care

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“…Cacioli & Mussap, 2014), homosexuality (Slevin & Linneman, 2010), cancers (e.g. Hammond, Teucher, Duggleby and Thomas, 2012), maintenance of independence (Smith et al, 2007), and leisure/health (Wiersma & Chesser, 2011). Ageing is often associated with threat to older adults (Levy, 2009), for example, being a victim of negative stereotypes of ageing has been linked with cardiovascular stress (Levy et al, 2008), increased psychological distress and poorer quality of life (Yuan, 2007).…”

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“…Smith et al, 2009). For this reason, IPA has been increasingly implemented in studies with men, for example, examining illness perceptions, (Bullen, Edwards, Marke, & Matthews, 2010;Levy & Cartwright, 2015), fatherhood (Millings, 2010), body dissatisfaction (Adams, Turner & Bucks, 2005), drug use (Van Hout & Kean, 2015), cancer and ageing (Hammond et al, 2012;Chambers et al, 2015). The idiographic nature of IPA corresponds with our study's aims of considering individuals' unique experience, and exploring the cohort group in detail.…”

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Men's experiences of middle-age: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

Vas

Forshaw

Grogan

2016

NORMA

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Middle-age is distinctive in both the quantity of stressors experienced and their nature, so is an important area of study. This study used semi-structured e-mail interviews to investigate how a group of nine Caucasian, middle class, heterosexual men aged between 45 and 55 years made sense of ageing and middle age. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis approach was employed. Analysis of the accounts indicated four superordinate themes: (1) feelings of being trapped in between post-industrial and contemporaneous gender ideals, (2) mind over body, and the disregard of the metrosexual body ideology, (3) fatherhood, being busy, and lost opportunities, (4) holistic and inward self-awareness. Future studies are needed to enable an understanding of middle-aged men's experiences of distress associated with ageing, and to investigate whether this is associated with the progress of long-term physical and mental conditions at midlife.

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“…To date, various studies have shown that metaphor is regarded as a framework for patients to make sense of their cancer illness, and it provides intellectual and linguistic tools for communicating cancer patients' senseless suffering, and also plans for personal transformation in coping with such an illness (Bowker, 1996;Gibbs & Franks, 2002;Hurley, 2014;Magaña, 2019). In other words, the use of certain metaphors provides valuable insights into the shared and individual ways patients make sense of their illness, and particularly, of their cancer experience (Hammond et al, 2012).…”

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The OBJECT Metaphor in the Conceptualisation of Cancer in Malay Women’s Narratives

Jamil

Rashid

Kasim

2019

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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Our conceptualisation of life-threatening illness such as cancer is said to be highly metaphorised and often grounded in some fundamental contrastive categories of experience in the physical environment. As such, some studies have revealed the use of different metaphors, such as WAR, JOURNEY and GAME in cancer related discourse. Related to this, the current paper seeks to examine the use of the OBJECT metaphor in Malay women’s narratives on cancer, utilising the framework of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) as propounded by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). This dimension of metaphor has not been explored before among Malay women specifically on cancer. It illustrates some examples of the relevant metaphorical expressions and discusses how the source domain OBJECT structures the women’s thinking of cancer. Findings of the study indicate that conceiving cancer in terms of a heavy object, an unwanted object, and as a gift provides insights into the women’s reality in coping with this life-threatening illness. The OBJECT metaphor structured in the women’s narratives highlights not only their conception of the disease, but also their expectation and optimism in coping with the illness. Findings of the study could be useful for health professionals and caretakers in that a more effective communication could occur between them and cancer patients, which, in turn, could lead to a better understanding of cancer patients’ experiences.

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An ‘unholy alliance’ of existential proportions: Negotiating discourses with men's experiences of cancer and aging

Cited by 15 publications

References 24 publications

How older people with incurable cancer experience daily living: A qualitative study from Norway

How older people with incurable cancer experience daily living: A qualitative study from Norway

Men's experiences of middle-age: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

The OBJECT Metaphor in the Conceptualisation of Cancer in Malay Women’s Narratives

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