Publications

Publication details [#52117]

Cohen, Elisia L. 2009. Naming and Claiming Cancer among African American Women: An Application of Problematic Integration Theory. Journal of Applied Communication Research 37 (4) : 397–417.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | communicative style | disease terminology | everyday conversation | information processing

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study uses Problematic Integration (PI) theory to explore how a sample of African American women comprehend the uncertainties inherent to cancer risk communication, and to examine their problems with talking overtly about (breast) cancer in everyday life.