@article{63dad482bb9f45df811a06b6ec7e675f,
title = "Cancer Survivorship at the Intersections of Care and Personhood",
abstract = "Surviving colorectal cancer following ostomy surgery with an intestinal stoma presents numerous challenges to the cultural category of full adult personhood. The foremost is managing unpredictable bowel activity. The technical management of the ostomy facilitated by biomedical specialists, is essential for personhood realignment. This article focuses on how some female long-term cancer survivors manage and adapt to this new fecal habitus by mobilizing various assemblages of care–receiving care, continuing to provide particular gendered forms of care, and returning to caregiving roles. These interdependent practices of care realign personhood, or at the very least, minimize the assaults that having an ostomy presents to the cultural category of full adult personhood.",
keywords = "United States, cancer survivorship, care, gender, lifecourse, personhood",
author = "Michelle Ramirez and Janke, {E. Amy} and Marcia Grant and Andrea Altschuler and Mark Hornbrook and Krouse, {Robert S.}",
note = "Funding Information: This research was funded by a Minority Supplement grant awarded to the first author by The National Cancer Institute (CA 106912-02S1, parent grant CA 106912) The Institutional Review Boards of both KPNC and KPNW approved all study materials and protocols. I am extremely grateful to the co-editors of the special volume?Narelle Warren and Dikaios Sakellariou ? for seeing the potential in a very rough first draft. Your feedback (and patience!) really helped me navigate the story of care and personhood. Lenore Manderson?s work in this arena has been so important and inspirational; thus, it was an honor to work with her on the final versions. Many thanks to my co-authors for their mentorship and guidance, Chris Wendel for his assistance with all of my data requests, and Mary Wagner for being the supreme human that she is, and for all of the support she has provided over these many years. I would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for making this a stronger article. JC, I cannot thank you enough for putting me back together every time I am rent; I love you always. My deepest thanks, however, go to the 30 women who allowed me the great privilege of listening to their adversities while also showing me how they found a way to their personhood ?home.?",
year = "2020",
month = jan,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1080/01459740.2019.1642886",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "39",
pages = "55--68",
journal = "Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness",
issn = "0145-9740",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "1",
}