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Staging Breast Cancer, Rehearsing Metastatic Disease

Christina Sinding

Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Community Research Initiative, Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto

Ross Gray

Psychosocial and Behavioural Research Unit at the Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto

Margaret Fitch

Psychosocial and Behavioural Research Unit, Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre

Marlene Greenberg

Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre.

Social science researchers have fruitfully used a range of conceptualizations of "performance": as a metaphor for social life, a way of vivifying research findings, and a form of scholarly representation. In this article, the researchers consider performance in its hermeneutic sense, as a way of generating meaning. The drama Handle With Care? Living With Metastatic Breast Cancer was created by a research team, a theater troupe, and women with breast cancer. The researchers employ an interpretive phenomenological framework to explore interviews with women with breast cancer involved in creating Handle With Care? The performative context in which the drama developed allowed certain illness meanings to emerge, intensify, and shift. The article also considers ethical dilemmas surfaced by this project.

Qualitative Health Research, Vol. 12, No. 1, 61-73 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/104973230201200105
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