The Social Construction of Choice within Screening Mammography: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Communication
There are increasing efforts to support cisgender women to make an informed decision before participating in biennial screening mammography. I adopted a feminist-relational perspective to explore women’s knowledge about screening and determine how screening mammography is socially constructed by wom...
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| author | Seaman, Kristen |
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| description | There are increasing efforts to support cisgender women to make an informed decision before participating in biennial screening mammography. I adopted a feminist-relational perspective to explore women’s knowledge about screening and determine how screening mammography is socially constructed by women, healthcare providers, and the media. The findings indicated that opportunities for women to make an informed choice regarding their participation in screening mammography are limited and underscore the need to reconceptualise informed decision-making. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-825252021-02-03T06:31:45Z The Social Construction of Choice within Screening Mammography: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Communication Seaman, Kristen There are increasing efforts to support cisgender women to make an informed decision before participating in biennial screening mammography. I adopted a feminist-relational perspective to explore women’s knowledge about screening and determine how screening mammography is socially constructed by women, healthcare providers, and the media. The findings indicated that opportunities for women to make an informed choice regarding their participation in screening mammography are limited and underscore the need to reconceptualise informed decision-making. 2020 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82525 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Seaman, Kristen The Social Construction of Choice within Screening Mammography: Implications for Policy, Practice, and Communication |
| title | The Social Construction of Choice within Screening Mammography: Implications for Policy,
Practice, and Communication |
| title_full | The Social Construction of Choice within Screening Mammography: Implications for Policy,
Practice, and Communication |
| title_fullStr | The Social Construction of Choice within Screening Mammography: Implications for Policy,
Practice, and Communication |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Social Construction of Choice within Screening Mammography: Implications for Policy,
Practice, and Communication |
| title_short | The Social Construction of Choice within Screening Mammography: Implications for Policy,
Practice, and Communication |
| title_sort | social construction of choice within screening mammography: implications for policy,
practice, and communication |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82525 |