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Le repas à l’épreuve du cancer : une redéfinition sensorielle, sensible et symbolique
The meal to the test of cancer: a sensorial, sensitive and symbolic redefinition

Author(s): Clémentine HUGOL-GENTIAL
Subject(s): Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: ESSACHESS
Keywords: meal; cancer; biological reality; pleasure; healthy

Summary/Abstract: This contribution is focused on patients' food practices affected by cancer and cure. The led analyses wish to understand the break linked to the disease and cures to question ways either sensory or symbolic which determine the food choices.

  • Issue Year: VIII/2015
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 181-194
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: French