Cultural Scripts Underpinning Prostate Cancer-Literacy in Japan
In a country where cancer has been dubbed a “national disease” ( kokumin bio ) that mostly affects Japanese men, this article presents a reading of the cultural scripts underneath prostate cancer—one of the “Western type of cancers” ( ōbeigata no gan ). The reading is grounded in an adaptation of th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2022-02-01
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| Series: | American Journal of Men's Health |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/15579883221076658 |