KIRSTEN BELL
anthropologist, not the actress

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2020. Staging prevention, arresting progress: Chronic disease prevention and the lifestyle frame. In A. Leibing & S. Schicktanz (eds), Preventing Dementia? Critical Perspectives on a New Paradigm of Preparing for Old Age. Berghahn: New York. The book is available open access here.
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2015 (with Svetlana Ristovski-Slijepcevic). Communicating ‘evidence’: Lifestyle, cancer and the promise of a disease-free future. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 29(2): 216-236.
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2014. The breast-cancer-ization of cancer survivorship: Implications for experiences of the disease. Social Science & Medicine, 110: 56-63. (see also my response to a commentary on the paper)
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2014. (with Svetlana Ristovski-Slijepecvic) Rethinking assumptions about cancer survivorship. Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal, 24(3): 166-168.
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2013. Biomarkers, the molecular gaze and the transformation of cancer survivorship. BioSocieties, 8: 124-143.
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2013. (with Svetlana Ristovski-Slijepcevic). Cancer survivorship: Why labels matter. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 31(4): 409-411. (see also our response to a commentary on the paper)
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2012. Remaking the self: Trauma, teachable moments and the biopolitics of cancer survivorship. Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, 36(4): 584-600.
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2011. (with Svetlana Ristovski-Slijepcevic) Metastatic cancer and mothering: Being a mother in the face of a contracted future. Medical Anthropology, 30(6): 629-649.
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2011. (with Arminee Kazanjian) PSA testing: Molecular technologies and men’s experience of prostate cancer survivorship. Health, Risk & Society, 13(2): 183-196.
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2011. (with Amy Salmon and Darlene McNaughton) Editorial. Alcohol, tobacco, obesity and the new public health. Critical Public Health, 21(1): 1-8. See the special double issue here and here.
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2010. Cancer survivorship, mor(t)ality, and lifestyle discourses on cancer prevention. Sociology of Health & Illness, 32(3): 349-364.
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2010 (with Joyce Lee, Sydney Foran, Sandy Kwong and John Christopherson) Is there an ideal cancer support group? Key findings from a qualitative study of three groups. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 28(4): 432-449.
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2010. (with Svetlana Ristovski-Slijepcevic, Gwen Chapman and Brenda Beagan) Being ‘thick’ indicates you are eating, you are healthy and you have an attractive body shape: Perspectives on fatness and food choice amongst Black and White men and women in Canada. Health Sociology Review, 19(3): 317-329.
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2009. ‘If it almost kills you that means it’s working’: Cultural models of chemotherapy expressed in a cancer support group. Social Science & Medicine, 68: 169-176.
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2009. (with Darlene McNaughton and Amy Salmon) Medicine, morality and mothering: Public health discourses on foetal alcohol exposure, smoking around children and childhood overnutrition. Critical Public Health, 19(2): 155-170.
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2009. (with Joyce Lee and Svetlana Ristovski-Slijepcevic) Perceptions of food and eating among Chinese patients with cancer: Findings of an ethnographic study. Cancer Nursing, 32(2): 118-126.
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2007. (with Darlene McNaughton) Feminism and the invisible fat man. Body & Society, 13(1): 108-132.