Les individus face à l’événement « cancer »

In this article, we present arguments on the impact of cancer on the collective experience of time within two main social institutions, family and the workplace. This disease always provokes a biographic crisis when it appears. Nevertheless, as medical technology progresses, cancer is becoming a chr...

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Main Authors: Lionel Pourtau, Agnès Dumas, Philippe Amiel
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Language:fra
Published: ADR Temporalités 2011-07-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/1531
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description In this article, we present arguments on the impact of cancer on the collective experience of time within two main social institutions, family and the workplace. This disease always provokes a biographic crisis when it appears. Nevertheless, as medical technology progresses, cancer is becoming a chronic disease, and the social effects of cancer are changing. It is no longer the same disease with a short-term risk of death. Treatments can last for years with uncertain results and induce handicap or social stigma. The collective experiences of time, shared between the sick person and her family and friends, tend to break up, entailing time breaks and leading to the social isolation of the patient. The ecliptic dimension of the disease, with its remissions and relapses, gives rise to repeated biographic crisis.
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spelling doaj-art-5799b28e29df4f18bacdecd2d582fc2d2024-12-09T15:57:17ZfraADR TemporalitésTemporalités1777-90062102-58782011-07-011310.4000/temporalites.1531Les individus face à l’événement « cancer »Lionel PourtauAgnès DumasPhilippe AmielIn this article, we present arguments on the impact of cancer on the collective experience of time within two main social institutions, family and the workplace. This disease always provokes a biographic crisis when it appears. Nevertheless, as medical technology progresses, cancer is becoming a chronic disease, and the social effects of cancer are changing. It is no longer the same disease with a short-term risk of death. Treatments can last for years with uncertain results and induce handicap or social stigma. The collective experiences of time, shared between the sick person and her family and friends, tend to break up, entailing time breaks and leading to the social isolation of the patient. The ecliptic dimension of the disease, with its remissions and relapses, gives rise to repeated biographic crisis.https://journals.openedition.org/temporalites/1531workfamilychronic diseasediscriminationhealthsociology
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Les individus face à l’événement « cancer »
Temporalités
work
family
chronic disease
discrimination
health
sociology
title Les individus face à l’événement « cancer »
title_full Les individus face à l’événement « cancer »
title_fullStr Les individus face à l’événement « cancer »
title_full_unstemmed Les individus face à l’événement « cancer »
title_short Les individus face à l’événement « cancer »
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discrimination
health
sociology
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