title: Massaged embodiment of cancer patients.
abstract: This paper analyses the massaged embodiment of cancer patients and involves a poststructural approach. Poststructuralism as a methodology is used as it provides a way of seeing and understanding cancer patients' complex experience of embodiment. Massage promotes a quality of embodiment that involves well being, comfort and relaxation. However, massage can promote vulnerability and this is evident in some of the participants' talk. For participants, massage provides a reclaiming of 'the old body' and an experience of mind and body connection. Embodiment is theorised as shifting, discursively constituted and multi layered.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: van der Riet
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image; D006801:Humans; D008405:Massage / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010358:Patient Participation; D011788:Quality of Life