To Me, it's My Life : Medical Communication, Trust and Activism in Cyberspace  

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Radin, Patricia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 62 no. 3 (Feb. 2006), page 591-601.
Topik: medical; breast cancer; virtual community; trust; self help groups; canada

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.1 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper studies the conversations and activities of an online support group for breast cancer sufferers and survivors and theor supporters. Using communications medium theory and social capital theory, it examines the mundane and profound exchanges, the poignant self disclosures, the creative expressions of solidarity and the minor but not insignificant political actions of people initially strangers who come together as a virtuous circle, not only to assist with medical communication in a virtual environment that promotes thick trust. BCANS participants discuss with candor, warmth and even humor such painful topics as death and dying and the crises in intimate relationships brought about by a terminal illness. The sharing of confidences and fears enables participants to pool theor collectibe intelligence about many things from how to cope with swelling to how to think about end of life issues, to how to improve social policy.

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